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Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft alongside Bill Gates. In June 2017, he was estimated to be the 46th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $21.1 billion.

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As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

Discoverers, Lasts, Ocean, Space, Species

What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?

Exciting, Exist, Needs, Question, Realizing, Should

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

Low, Lows, Persons, Private, Profile

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

Answers, Basic, Effort, Excited, Fundamentals, Visionaries

In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.

Eight, Explore, Sick, Terminals, Years

With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?

Asking, Done, Highlight, People, Projects

I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

Buy, Flown, Sky, Stars, Thinking, Ticket

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Care, Humanity, Moving, Redefined

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

Pacific, Prosaic, Regret, Swim, Wish

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

Clinic, Container, Ebola, People, Rusty, Towns

In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

Cobble, Computer, Knock, People, Style, Team

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

Business, Commitment, Hung, Times, Tough, Tough Times

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

Degree, Football, Sports, Team

You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

Enjoy, Enjoy Life, Family, Friends, Games, Sports

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future. . . I called that future The Wired World.

Connected, Microsoft, Saws, World

That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

Communicate, Hundreds, Life Changing, Listening, Transmitted, Would Be

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Feeling, Giving, Interesting, Museums, Technology

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

Differences, Heads, Make, Making A Difference, Think, Thinking

Sometimes it's very difficult to find fresh fruit on the road.

Difficult, Fresh, Fruit, Road, Sometimes

You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.

Important, Look, Looks, Things, World

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