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

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

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.

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