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Philip Emeagwali

"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."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?"

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not."

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

People

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Philip Emeagwali
"It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels."

Nature

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Philip Emeagwali
"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."

Computer

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Philip Emeagwali
"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."

Computer

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Philip Emeagwali
"The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS."

Challenge

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

Men

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

Finance

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Philip Emeagwali
"First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it."

Nature

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Philip Emeagwali
"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."

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Philip Emeagwali
"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."

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