Quotes by Nigerian/Nigeria authors (page 2)

"But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all"

"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 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?"

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

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

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

"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"

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

"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"

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

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

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

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

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"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"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"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, Scientist

"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar"

Nnamdi Azikiwe, Statesman

"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"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"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"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"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"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"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"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"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, Scientist

"Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

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

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

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Quotes by Nigerian authors