Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

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.

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

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.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.