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Paul Allen
American
Businessman
Born:
Jan 21
,
1953
Died:
Oct 15
,
2018
About
Brain
People
Sports
Technology
You
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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.
Paul Allen
Life
You
World
Better
Important
Enjoy
More
Better Place
Look
Make
Place
Much
Your
Things
Part of life has to be about enjoying life and having different experiences, especially if you're with friends and you're on an adventure on a boat or a submarine - it's a lot of fun.
Paul Allen
Life
You
About
Having
Part
Adventure
Lot
Friends
Submarine
Different
Experiences
Boat
Fun
Enjoying
Enjoying Life
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
Time
World
First
Sick
Our
More
Adventurous
First Time
Always
Got
Were
Years
Going
Microsoft
Eight
After
Decided
Explore
Chained
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.
Paul Allen
Science
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
Progress
Invention
Computer Science
Negatively
Way
Airplane
Jobs
Promise
Impact
Some
Vastly
Could
Computer
Generally
Opened
Industry
Affected
Artificial
Same
Human
Door
While
Much
Human Progress
Railroad
Wider
Facing your own mortality forces you to re-evaluate your priorities.
Paul Allen
You
Own
Facing
Mortality
Re-Evaluate
Forces
Priorities
Your
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
Me
Our
Potential
Exciting
Most
How
Exist
Question
Realize
Should
Imaginable
Need
Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.
Paul Allen
Own
Philanthropy
Background
Find
Something
Doing
Intellectual
Intellectual Curiosity
Curiosity
Personal
Anybody
Them
Appeals
The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.
Paul Allen
Complex
Tried
Puzzle
Most
Scientific
Brain
Ever
Challenging
If you have the chance to realize some of these dreams you had as a kid, and you have the opportunity, why not pursue that?
Paul Allen
Dreams
You
Opportunity
Kid
Some
Pursue
Had
Realize
Why
Why Not
Chance
I just try to find things that either need to be done, should be done, or where I can make a difference in a significant way. And the things I've been able to participate in have been very, very exciting.
Paul Allen
Try
Way
Significant
Find
Able
Exciting
Participate
Make
Make A Difference
Been
Very
Done
Just
Difference
Where
Either
Should
Things
Need
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.
Paul Allen
Life
Time
Family
You
Sports
Enjoy Life
Enjoy
Those
Involved
Got
Friends
Family And Friends
Your
Games
Moments
Peak
Playoff
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.
Paul Allen
Best
You
Technology
Science
Feeling
Too
Hey
About
Give
Something
Could
Maybe
Interesting
Here
Museum
Museums
I'm trying to show people that they can activate their own passions and find their own path.
Paul Allen
People
Path
Own
Find
Passions
Trying
Show
Show People
Activate
I believe in the power of shared data and technology to help build a better future.
Paul Allen
Future
Technology
Better
Power
Build
Believe
Data
Better Future
Shared
Help
I grew up watching games with my father at Washington Husky Stadium. When I moved out to Seattle, I had a friend who would take me to Seahawks games in the 1980s.
Paul Allen
Me
Father
Out
Would
Take
Had
Friend
Up
Stadium
Moved
Grew
Games
Who
Washington
Seattle
Watching
The definition of the good life is doing creative things, whether making music, trying to figure out how to do a particular piece of code, or putting together investments.
Paul Allen
Life
Music
Good
Together
Creative
Good Life
Definition
Out
Investments
Putting
Particular
Piece
How
Making
Doing
Trying
Whether
Figure
Code
Things
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.
Paul Allen
People
Care
Rural
About
Rusty
Container
Town
Got
Clinic
Shipping
Taste
Microscope
Africa
While
Medical
Medical Care
Kenya
I'm trying to do some things with my brain institute to understand more about the impact of concussion on brain tissue, because we have some scientists over there who are really good at looking at brain tissue and the effects of things on brain tissue.
Paul Allen
Good
Looking
Impact
Some
Some Things
About
More
Over
Institute
Because
Understand
Scientists
Brain
Effects
Trying
Tissue
Really
Who
Things
There's no enjoyment to losing money.
Paul Allen
Money
Losing
Enjoyment
As quickly as it started, our business model evaporated. But while Traf-O-Data was technically a business failure, the understanding of microprocessors we absorbed was crucial to our future success.
Paul Allen
Success
Future
Failure
Business
Technically
Understanding
Our
Future Success
Crucial
Absorb
Quickly
Model
While
Business Model
Started
Moore's Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer does.
Paul Allen
Technology
Way
Easier
Moore
Neuroscience
Computer
Does
Brain
Than
Different
Much
Works
Different Way
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.
Paul Allen
World
Universe
Other
Elsewhere
Our
Visionary
Some
Seek
About
Excited
Supporting
Most
Am
Answers
Exist
Question
Very
Efforts
May
Fundamental
Basic
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
Work
Book
Thought
First
Sense
Research
Everybody
Else
Books
Worthwhile
Something
Around
Tangible
Up
Done
Just
Substantive
Grew
Forth
Held
Really
Thing
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.
Paul Allen
Work
You
Together
People
Problem
Style
Down
Collaborative
Hopefully
Some
Attack
Point
Computer
Computer Industry
Knock
Come
Industry
Another
Got
Crank
After
Turn
Then
Team
Who
Things
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
Communicate
Listening
Other
Hundreds
Signal
Out
Would
Would-Be
Potentially
Life-Changing
Could
Know
Maybe
Us
Transmitted
Who
Beings
Millennia
Thing
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?
Paul Allen
Think
Everyone
Brought
Bear
Heads
Global
Global Warming
Make
Make A Difference
Scratching
Difference
Warming
Things
Technological
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