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 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.

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

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

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

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