Philip Emeagwali Quotes
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Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
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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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Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
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Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
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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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Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
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First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
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I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.
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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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I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
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I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
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It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
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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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Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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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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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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Our lives sometimes depends on computers performing as predicted.
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The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
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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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