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.

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

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.

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

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

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

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.