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

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Source : Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.205, Penguin

Paul Allen

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“War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.”
“Stress is a choice. Do you buy that? Some people have a hard time with the idea. Yes, bad things happen: The economy sours, our business struggles, the stock market tumbles, jobs are lost, people around us don't follow through, deadlines are missed, projects fail, good people leave. Life is full of these. But still, stress is a choice because whatever the 'trigger event,' we always choose our own response. We choose to react angrily. We choose to stuff our emotions and keep quiet. We choose to worry. Stress is a choice.”
“On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.”
“You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.”
“Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.”
“I see, from my vantage point as the vice-chair of the Legal Services Corporation, a serious crisis going on in this country. Eighty percent of low-income people have no access to the civil justice system, meaning anything but criminal law.”
“The highest achievers in the world have all succeeded because they mapped out their visions”
“What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.”

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