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Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.

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.

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.

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

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

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

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.