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

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.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

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

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.

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.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.