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

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.

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.

God is reciprocally responding to the cry of the afflicted.

I’m meeting the attic before I meet the girl.

Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not want to go through the pain and trials

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep the certain knot of peace The baiting-place of wit the balm of woe The poor man's wealth the prisoner's release The indifferent judge between the high and low.

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.