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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.