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

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

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.

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