Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

Some people can vent their anger, take a breath, and let it go, but I wasn't one of them.

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.

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.

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.

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 think few people in their lifetime have the chance to be involved in something like the creation of Microsoft - that's always going to be something I'm known for.

In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.

At one point, I was the youngest owner in major league sports.

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.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

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.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

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.

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.

Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.

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.

I have to admit, between the Seahawks games and the Blazer games and playoffs games, we're talking about close to 100 games a year, so I don't really follow other sports a lot.

There's a long history of artificial intelligence programs that try to mimic what the brain is doing, but they've all fallen short.

The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress.