I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

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

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.