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It's always interesting to bring scientists together, because they typically have very polarized views.
In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.
Long periods can pass between the times you play for a championship, so you have to savor those moments.
The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole 'nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.
The unique thing about Stratolaunch - one of the unique things - is it doesn't require a fixed launchpad.
If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.
The thing is, once you're in the Super Bowl, you want to win. As time goes on, you want to win more and more.
My high school in Seattle, Lakeside, seemed conservative on the surface, but it was educationally progressive.
Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.
Somehow, I knew you had to have perfect eyesight to be a test pilot, and so that was it for my astronaut career.
I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.
I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.
I've been on record many times in the past about the challenge of being competitive with NBA teams in smaller markets.
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.
As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.
I have held Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock guitar and imagined what it would be like to play it, but that's the extent of it.
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.
If you have the chance to realize some of these dreams you had as a kid, and you have the opportunity, why not pursue that?
The Ebola virus is unlike any health crisis we have ever experienced and needs a response unlike anything we have ever seen.
Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.
The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.
Sports is such a cyclical thing; it's often feast or famine. But what you try and do as an owner is build a winning organization.
There's a long history of artificial intelligence programs that try to mimic what the brain is doing, but they've all fallen short.
As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.
I think, as an owner, you really want to do the team right, the fans right, and the community right and build a winning organization.
Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian Art Museum.
What people don't realize is the human body and the brain are so well designed to do - by millions of years of evolution - what we do.
I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.
Moore's Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer does.
I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working, as a kid.
Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.
I really do care about the health of the players. That's one of the tough things about the NFL - it's so physically tough on the players.
When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.
Even though Traf-O-Data wasn't a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft's first product a couple of years later.
We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.
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?
I think it's pretty unique to see a coach adjust to the talent he has and maximize the abilities of players he has and help them keep growing.
There's a whole different way to express yourself in music and the other arts, and it hopefully complements other things you do in technology.
We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.
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?
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
To me, it's the kind of interesting question the human race should be investing in. Is there intelligent life out there? Are there other beings out there?
It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and the vision and execution of the artist.
AI2 was born from a desire to create a system that could truly reason about knowledge, rather than just offer up what had been written on a subject before.
It turns out, if you go 1,000 feet down in the ocean, it's really dark, and the animals are really strange, but if you put on some Pink Floyd, it's fantastic.
It's part of the juice of sports that you tend to find certain sports figures that you cheer on from other cities and others that you're a bit skeptical about.
The idea that, you know - when I was growing up - that everybody would carry around a portable communicating device, that was science fiction when I was a kid.
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.
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.