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

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

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.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

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.