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Philip Emeagwali

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

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

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"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."

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"Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead."

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"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."

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"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

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"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."

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"When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment."

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"The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network."

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"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."

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"Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?"

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"First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it."
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"I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17."
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"Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger."
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"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."
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