Philip Emeagwali Quotes

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

  Philip Emeagwali

  Success, Hard Work, Past

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• Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Adversity, People, Stronger

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• My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Focus, Important, Mystery

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• It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Wheels, Smarter

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• It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Mathematical Equations, Technique, Algorithms

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• The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Opportunity, Discovery, Important

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• I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Different, Analogies, Fields

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• Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

  Philip Emeagwali

  People, West, Natural

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• Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

  Philip Emeagwali

  School, Eight, Years

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• 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.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Powerful, Forever, Connections

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• Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Stronger, Prison, Nelson

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

  Philip Emeagwali

  Believe, People, Computer

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• Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Computer, Sometimes, Performing

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• 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.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Pigs, Brave, Use

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• Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Trying, Mystery, Problem

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• The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Government, United States, Connections

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• I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Astronomers, Mathematician, Physicist

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

  Philip Emeagwali

  Strong, Hardship, Made

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• 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.

  Philip Emeagwali

  College, Eight, Years

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• During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

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  Airports, Library, United States

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• Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Hiv, Percent, Knows

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• I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

  Philip Emeagwali

  School, High School, Age

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

  Philip Emeagwali

  Men, Epidemics, Hiv

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• Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Ideas, Different, Hiv

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• The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Connections, Machines, Processors

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