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Danh ngôn của Paul Allen (Sứ mệnh: 4)

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.
Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others' shoulders.
We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.
As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.
Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain, which was designed by evolution.
I got a taste when I was in Kenya a while ago of what medical care was in rural Africa. I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.
In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.
I first got interested in the brain through computers.
If it hadn't been for our Traf-O-Data venture, and if it hadn't been for all that time spent on UW computers, you could argue that Microsoft might not have happened.
Some people can vent their anger, take a breath, and let it go, but I wasn't one of them.
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.
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?
As always, space remains an unforgiving frontier, and the skies overhead will surely present obstacles and setbacks that must be overcome. But hard challenges demand fresh approaches, and I'm optimistic that Stratolaunch will yield transformative benefits - not only for scientists and space entrepreneurs, but for all of us.