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

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.

...People are not one-dimensional. People do not live on one plane...

Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our sense of balance and perspective.

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

My greatest fear is failure.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

The day you realize you don't have to make sense to anyone is the day you start to make sense to you.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.