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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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I first got interested in the brain through computers.
Paul Allen
First
Through
Computers
Got
Brain
Interested
There's a long history of artificial intelligence programs that try to mimic what the brain is doing, but they've all fallen short.
Paul Allen
History
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
Try
Long
Mimic
Programs
Long History
Doing
Fallen
Brain
Artificial
Short
The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in detail, you realize that it's much more complex than you thought.
Paul Allen
You
Amazing
Thought
Looking
Complex
Complexity
Detail
More
Part
Almost
Brain
Than
Any
Realize
Much
Level
Start
I've lived in Boston.
Paul Allen
Boston
Lived
To me, it's the kind of interesting question the human race should be investing in. Is there intelligent life out there? Are there other beings out there?
Paul Allen
Life
Me
Other
Out
Kind
Investing
Question
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Human
Interesting
Race
Should
Human Race
Beings
I really do care about the health of the players. That's one of the tough things about the NFL - it's so physically tough on the players.
Paul Allen
Health
Care
Tough
About
Physically
Really
Things
Players
I have to admit, between the Seahawks games and the Blazer games and playoffs games, we're talking about close to 100 games a year, so I don't really follow other sports a lot.
Paul Allen
Sports
Year
Other
Follow
Admit
About
Blazer
Between
Talking
Lot
Close
Really
Games
Playoffs
I think few people in their lifetime have the chance to be involved in something like the creation of Microsoft - that's always going to be something I'm known for.
Paul Allen
People
Few
Creation
Think
Something
Lifetime
Like
Involved
Known
Always
Few People
Going
Microsoft
Chance
I'm not somebody that just has one or two things in life that are laserlike focused.
Paul Allen
Life
Somebody
Focused
One Or Two
Just
Things
Two
Everyone's dream is to take a pill - take a pill every day so you won't have Alzheimer's.
Paul Allen
Day
You
Every Day
Every
Everyone
Dream
Take
Alzheimer
Pill
Back to Microsoft days, I'm always looking for, 'OK, that's great, but what can go wrong?'
Paul Allen
Great
Looking
Back
OK
Wrong
Days
Always
Go
Microsoft
Your dream, when you buy a sports franchise, is to win the championship, the Super Bowl.
Paul Allen
Buy
You
Sports
Win
Franchise
Dream
Super
Super Bowl
Bowl
Your
Your Dream
Championship
It's part of the juice of sports that you tend to find certain sports figures that you cheer on from other cities and others that you're a bit skeptical about.
Paul Allen
You
Sports
Other
Others
Bit
Cities
Find
About
Tend
Part
Cheer
Juice
Skeptical
Certain
Figures
In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.
Paul Allen
World
Everybody
Press
Would
Easy
Find
Excited
Ideal
Ideal World
Talk
There's a whole different way to express yourself in music and the other arts, and it hopefully complements other things you do in technology.
Paul Allen
Music
You
Technology
Yourself
Other
Way
Hopefully
Arts
Different
Whole
Express
Express Yourself
Different Way
Things
I have held Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock guitar and imagined what it would be like to play it, but that's the extent of it.
Paul Allen
Guitar
Would
Would-Be
Like
Woodstock
Held
Hendrix
Play
Extent
Imagined
There was a time when the government cut off funding to SETI, basically, and I thought it was something that should continue, and it was a very interesting scientific question.
Paul Allen
Government
Time
Thought
Something
Scientific
Continue
Question
Off
Very
Interesting
Cut
Should
Funding
Basically
Of course I love basketball.
Paul Allen
Love
Course
Basketball
The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole 'nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.
Paul Allen
Dramatic
Intense
Intensity
Whole
NBA
Level
Plays
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.
Paul Allen
Failure
Business
Free
Own
Local
Our
Local Governments
States
Objectively
Pick
Provide
Governments
Began
Up
Speaking
Company
Right
Services
Started
When I was 7 or 8, I became fascinated with hot rods.
Paul Allen
Hot
Became
Fascinated
If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.
Paul Allen
Fragmented
Would
Never
Had
Industry
Existed
Very
Microsoft
Human beings are fragile things, and for the period of time it takes to get them to Mars and back, you have dangerous radiation from the sun and the galaxy. We have to think about issues like that.
Paul Allen
Time
You
Dangerous
Think
Back
Sun
Mars
About
Takes
Like
Period
Issues
Get
Human
Human Beings
Galaxy
Them
Radiation
Beings
Things
Fragile
As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.
Paul Allen
About
How
Still
Brain
Curious
Just
Happens
Information
Really
Functions
Flow
The computer is a very regular structure. It's very uniform. It's got a bunch of memory, and it's got a little element that computes bits of memory and combines them with each other and puts them back somewhere. It's a very simple thing.
Paul Allen
Memory
Simple
Somewhere
Other
Back
Bits
Structure
Simple Thing
Computer
Puts
Got
Very
Bunch
Little
Them
Uniform
Regular
Each
Element
Thing
I've been on record many times in the past about the challenge of being competitive with NBA teams in smaller markets.
Paul Allen
Challenge
Past
Markets
Record
About
Smaller
Been
Times
Being
In The Past
Many
Teams
NBA
Competitive
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