Philip Emeagwali Quotes

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• My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
• Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from…
• The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use.…
• The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was…
• I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
• It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.
• Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.
• During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and…
• The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how…
• The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
• I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.
• I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
• When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not…
• The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.
• The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
• Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
• Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
• Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
• Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
• It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

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