Paul Allen Quotes

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.

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.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

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.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

I've always had this fascination with the brain. I'm not really much of a religious person, but like anybody, you are at least fascinated by what some call a soul - what I would call the brain - and who we are and how we work.

The brain is the black box: the final frontier.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

The idea [of the Quantum Computer] is to create a machine that is as intelligence as humans, and probably much more so.

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.