Philip Emeagwali

Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

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

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

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

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.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

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

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

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.