Top 11 Paul Allen Quotes

In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it.

Our great string of successes had married my vision to his unmatched aptitude for business.

My style was to absorb all the data I could to make the best-informed decision possible, sometimes to the point of over-analysis.

What we did was unprecedented, but what is less well understood is that we had no choice.

Others might have found us eccentric, but I didn’t care. I had discovered my calling. I was a programmer.

It's very challenging to carve back market share.

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

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.

There’s going to be reversals. You have to be ready, to be philosophical about that.

There are relatively few ideas that you can do just by yourself.

I’m always interested in finding ways to innovate … . It’s a blend; it’s not a point focus.