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.

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

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

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.