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

-- Philip Emeagwali

#Connections Quotes #Machines Quotes

“The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor”
“Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.”
“So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.”
“She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.”
“Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.”
“I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.”
“Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.”
“Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.”

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