Philip Emeagwali
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Biography
Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian computer scientist. He is known for making controversial statements about his achievements, such as inventing the Internet and creating the world's fastest computer, the Connection Machine, which are disputed by the scientific community.
"So, to each one of you, I say: dream big, work hard, and never give up. Your journey might be filled with challenges, but remember, it is these challenges that forge the strongest steel."
"First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it. It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels."
"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. It is called learning from the school of hard knocks. It made me street smart. It equipped me with a greater sense of determination and vision."
"It is very easy to become motivated if you lived in one of the harshest places in the world and become aware that a good education offers an opportunity for a better life."
"Science grows by accumulation of knowledge. The Internet does not have one birth date or place"
"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."
"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
"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."
"The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future."
"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 hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future."
"One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations."
"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."