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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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"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer."

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"In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants."

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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."

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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."

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"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village."

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"With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing."

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"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff."

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"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do."

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"The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor."

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"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"

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