Quotes

If you want to catch fish, and really enjoy the sport, you will maintain your lures and line in some organized fashion. The best at it will always have their tackle ready.

David Allen

I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on the front end and then endured much more excruciating ones on the back end.

David Allen

'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.

David Allen

Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts you'll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

David Allen

Beginning drivers seem to make a lot of jerky movements with the wheel. Actually they're making smooth movements to very short horizons.

David Allen

A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity.

David Allen

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

James Van Allen

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

James Van Allen

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

James Van Allen

My device was setup in my backyard and the other one math instructor Raymond Crilley was using in Iowa City.

James Van Allen

I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

James Van Allen

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.

James Van Allen

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.

Paul Allen

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?

Paul Allen

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

Paul Allen

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Paul Allen

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.

Paul Allen

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.

Paul Allen

I still have the original tapes that had the BASIC that we brought from Boston to Albuquerque that had the first versions of BASIC on them.

Paul Allen

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

Paul Allen