American - Businessman | January 21, 1953 - October 15, 2018
The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole 'nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.
Paul Allen
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The idea that, you know - when I was growing up - that everybody would carry around a portable communicating device, that was science fiction when I was a kid.
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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.
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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.
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If it hadn't been for our Traf-O-Data venture, and if it hadn't been for all that time spent on UW computers, you could argue that Microsoft might not have happened.
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When I was 7 or 8, I became fascinated with hot rods.
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A big part of the success of Microsoft was that every year, the chips our software ran on got faster and cheaper. They doubled in capability every 18 months under Moore's law.
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Some people can vent their anger, take a breath, and let it go, but I wasn't one of them.
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As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.
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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.
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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.
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I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working, as a kid.
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