Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest in the arts. I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate... It's a blend; it's not a point focus. "

Related Quotes:

" Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously. "

Paul Allen

You

Team

Now

" Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium. "

" We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there. "

" In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point. "

" What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential? "

Paul Allen

Question

Need

" The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward. "

" When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help. "

" In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world. "

Paul Allen

Sick

Explore

" You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place. "

" In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference? "

" You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life. "

" While I sign off on trades or free agents, I've rarely overruled my basketball people's decisions. But I'm not shy about steering the discussion or pushing deeper if something doesn't make sense to me. "

Paul Allen

People

Decisions

" I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects. "

" I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile. "

" I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere. "

" I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile. "

Paul Allen

Done

Work

" Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time. "

" That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago. "

Paul Allen

Listening

Life-Changing

" In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way. "

" The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too. "

" As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers. "