Paul Allen

"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."

"He wanted to do a different brand of science, tackle bigger questions."

"At his core, he’s still very much an engineer."