Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

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.

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

Painting completed my life.

Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

When you start, it's not to do with the material so much. It's more to do with how you can control a crowd and make friends with an audience and sell your brand of humor.

I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.