"One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations."
-Philip Emeagwali
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"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
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"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."
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