I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

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.

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

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.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

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

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.

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

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

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.

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

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

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.

Apart from some of the videos and haircuts, I don't think I've made any wrong moves, ha ha!

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves.

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.

All of the designs on Minted are crowd-sourced from a global community of independent designers. We hold monthly design and art challenges that anyone in the world is welcome to enter.

Though we live in the world, we must not be of the world.

There's no reason to do 'ex and the City' if it's not going to be everything 'Sex and the City' is, which is vibrant emotions, comedy, drama... and also, style.

Don't get me wrong; it's not like I didn't go out and have fun. But there's been a lot of players that come to New York and get caught up in the lifestyle, and before you know it, they're sent away to another team because it affected their performance.

You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played.

I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

The skylines of Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, some 40 miles away, can be seen from the eight observation areas of the Seagram Tower.

If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign.

I have to keep healthy; otherwise, I jeopardise my career.

We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.