"The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future." ― Philip Emeagwali Topic(s): Motivational More From Philip Emeagwali "One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations." "Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions." "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." More In Motivational "Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."― Gordon B. Hinckley "You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine."― Flip Wilson "Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail."― John Donne