Go Seahawks! Go Blazers!
There’s no enjoyment to losing money.
If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.
It’s always interesting to bring scientists together, because they typically have very polarized views.
My high school in Seattle, Lakeside, seemed conservative on the surface, but it was educationally progressive.
I’m not a video-game player at all.
Those fortunate to achieve great wealth should put it to work for the good of humanity.
There are so many intricacies to our brain that won’t be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don’t operate in isolation.
Nobody really knows what it would take to create something that is self-aware or has a personality. I guess I could imagine a day when perhaps, if we can understand how it works in the human brain, which is unbelievably complicated, it could be possible.
The thing you realize when you get into studying neuroscience, even a little bit, is that everything is connected to everything else. So it’s as if the brain is trying to use everything at its disposal – what it is seeing, what it is hearing, what is the temperature, past experience.
Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others’ shoulders.
You could tell three things about Bill Gates pretty quickly. He was really smart. He was really competitive; he wanted to show you how smart he was. And he was really, really persistent.
Vulcan Inc. is a unique organization that unites commercial, philanthropic, research, policy, and technology innovation. Our goals are ambitious – from saving Africa’s elephants to unlocking the secrets of the human brain to building sustainable communities and opening up access to space.
The definition of the good life is doing creative things, whether making music, trying to figure out how to do a particular piece of code, or putting together investments.
My mother, God bless her, forced me to take touch typing when I was 16.
The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in detail, you realize that it’s much more complex than you thought.
I grew up watching games with my father at Washington Husky Stadium. When I moved out to Seattle, I had a friend who would take me to Seahawks games in the 1980s.
You want someone who will challenge you back; sometimes, that’s the way the best decisions get made.
If Microsoft had never existed… The industry would probably be very fragmented.
I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else’s and the research and so forth, there’s a sense of really have done something worthwhile.
The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.
I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it’s like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.
The intensity of the Super Bowl is one-of-a-kind. An NBA finals is best-of-seven. But the Super Bowl, one game, winner-take-all. The intensity is off the charts.
The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?
Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.
Everyone’s dream is to take a pill – take a pill every day so you won’t have Alzheimer’s.
As an ex-programmer, I’m still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.
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.
One of the things I’ve come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It’s not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.
I’m trying to show people that they can activate their own passions and find their own path.
It’s very challenging to carve back market share.
Some people are great at the pure mathematical things – like Bill Gates, he’s great at math things. He loves to do puzzles. Me, I like to look at an overall landscape and try to figure out, how do you solve a problem?
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