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Philip Emeagwali

"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."

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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."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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"Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework."

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

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"Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time."

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

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

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