Quotes by Nigerian authors

"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home"

"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention"

"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me"

"I always keep a ball in the car. You never know"

"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?"

"I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over"

"Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me"

"When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions"

"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa"

"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players"

"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try"

"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong"

"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"

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

"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"

"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted"

"Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger"

"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions"

"The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS"

"The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works"

"The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine"

"Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger"

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

"The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future"

"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"

"First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it"

"Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected"

"One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations"

"I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer"

"The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig"