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

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.

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.

Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.

If you've only had one relationship, how do you know you're good in bed?

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.