American - Businessman | January 21, 1953 - October 15, 2018
The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.
Paul Allen
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It turns out, if you go 1,000 feet down in the ocean, it's really dark, and the animals are really strange, but if you put on some Pink Floyd, it's fantastic.
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My mother, God bless her, forced me to take touch typing when I was 16.
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I was the center on our fraternity team, but I was a center-eligible, so I was known for my ability to go out, and I was pretty sure-handed catching a pass in the flat about ten yards down the field. My father played high school football and was pretty good. He also played center, so I always relished the idea that we both ended up playing center.
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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.
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At one point, I was the youngest owner in major league sports.
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If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.
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You have a certain number of dreams in your life you want to fulfill.
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Even though Traf-O-Data wasn't a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft's first product a couple of years later.
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We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.
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Microprocessors were instantly attractive to us because you could build something for a fraction of the cost of conventional electronics. That's essentially what we did with the Traf-O-Data computer - only it was too narrow and challenging an area to try to build a service business in.
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I remember having pizza at Shakey's in Vancouver, Washington in 1973 and talking about the fact that eventually, everyone is going to be online and have access to newspapers and stuff, and wouldn't people be willing to pay for information on a computer terminal.
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