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 hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

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.

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Do not allow the anxiety on how you will achieve your goals stop you from dreaming.

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.

Never be ashamed of your problems, your body, yourself. You are worth life.

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I am a very, very avid 'Anchorman' fan.