The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

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.

Give your best today you will create a better tomorrow.

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.

Everything was believed except the truth.

I can see why you like it here, there's a thin layer of nerd all over everything.

A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.

We just want to build a company that focuses on the love of Instagram.

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.