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" 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. I was their human guinea pig. "

Philip Emeagwali

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" The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS. "

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" One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations. "

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" Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling. "

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" 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 was shown a computer for the first time in my life. "

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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. "

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" I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17. "

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" Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted. "

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" The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future. "

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" Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources. "

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" First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it. "

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" The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. "

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" 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 comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. "

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" Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected. "

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" Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger. "

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" I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature. "

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" 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 different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS. "

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" I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. "

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" Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions. "

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" Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger. "

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" 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 it works. "

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" The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine. "

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