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Explore more quotes by Philip Emeagwali
"Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger."
People
"First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it."
Nature
"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."
Connection
"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."
Interest
"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."
Computer
"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."
Government
"It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels."
Nature
"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
"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
Computer
"Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected."
American
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"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
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"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."
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"Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers."
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"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
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"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed."
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"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."
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"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."
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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
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"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
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"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."
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