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

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.

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.

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

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

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

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

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.

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

Every morning, wake up with the warmth and the light of the rising sun in your heart.

Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.

It's what we think of ourselves that matter

I didn't want to be a loser, but I didn't want to fit in at the same time because I don't like just being ordinary. So it's one of those situations where I always kept my head up.

Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.

Donald Trump is dangerous. The truth is that the bigotry and hatred that he speaks have real consequences in people's lives.

I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.

When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.