Paul Allen

“In Seattle, I've talked about how Pete Carroll is such... I'm kind of surprised at the variety of styles that successful coaches can have. Some are very communicative and positive and energized - like, Pete Carroll has all that in spades. Some of them are more cerebral; some are more directive.”

“There's no enjoyment to losing money.”

“I would go in the university stacks and pull out books like 'Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II' when I was 12 or something, and I'd spend hours reading about the engines in some of those planes.”

“I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.”

“My high school in Seattle, Lakeside, seemed conservative on the surface, but it was educationally progressive.”

“I'm on Twitter, and I have over 10,000 followers. Which is pretty modest compared to Charlie Sheen.”

“Some of my first memories are waiting for my father to finish his day at work in the University of Washington library and come out and jump in the car with my mom and myself, and we'd be sitting there reading books, and then we'd go home.”

“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.”

“The biggest yacht that I have accommodates a submarine.”

“You want someone who will challenge you back; sometimes, that's the way the best decisions get made.”

“The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.”

“Continuity is important in sports.”

“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.”

“Those fortunate to achieve great wealth should put it to work for the good of humanity.”

“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.”

“No one knows the complete function of sleep. Is it to reset the brain or give it more of a rest period? Is it for cleaning the brain of all the garbage protein? For me, talking about these things as a non-biologist is fascinating.”

“My quest to expand access to space began more than a decade ago, when I teamed up with Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites to build SpaceShipOne. This innovative air-launched vehicle was the world's first private spacecraft to carry an astronaut into sub-orbital space.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.”