Philip Emeagwali Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”