Scientist

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.

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

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

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

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.

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

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

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

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

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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