Paul Allen
inventor, computer scientist, film producer, musician, entrepreneur, businessperson, record producer, composer, art collector, television producer, programmer, philanthropist, investor, co-founder
Read on Wikipedia1953 – 2018
All Quotes by Paul Allen
“Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.”
“The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress.”
“I’m always interested in finding ways to innovate … . It’s a blend; it’s not a point focus.”
“There are relatively few ideas that you can do just by yourself.”
“There’s going to be reversals. You have to be ready, to be philosophical about that.”
“I simply wanted to advance the field of artificial intelligence so that computers could do what they do best (organize and analyze information) to help people do what they do best, those inspired leaps of intuition that fuel original ideas and breakthroughs.”
“I’m trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.”
“It's very challenging to carve back market share.”
“Others might have found us eccentric, but I didn’t care. I had discovered my calling. I was a programmer.”
“What we did was unprecedented, but what is less well understood is that we had no choice.”
“My style was to absorb all the data I could to make the best-informed decision possible, sometimes to the point of over-analysis.”
“Our great string of successes had married my vision to his unmatched aptitude for business.”
“In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it.”
“I got a taste when I was in Kenya a while ago of what medical care was in rural Africa. I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.”
“Some people can vent their anger, take a breath, and let it go, but I wasn't one of them.”