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. – Philip Emeagwali
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted. – Philip Emeagwali
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions. – Philip Emeagwali
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. – Philip Emeagwali