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.

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.

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.

God long ago defined what it means to do evil. It is for violations of His standards that we are to be afraid.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.

Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.

I have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership.

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.