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John Hennessy
President of Stanford University
John Hennessy: When we did the science fair project, which I did with a good friend of mine, Steve Angle, I realized that I had a real interest in technology at that point, and really getting involved in technology. We really didn't know what we were doing. We could have gone out and read some books -- college textbooks of course. But we could have gone out and read some books, and probably cut the amount of time we were spending on the project -- that we had to spend on it to make this thing work -- in half, but we were a little bit naïve. Nonetheless, perseverance, hard work brought us to the right conclusion, and we had something that worked, something we could take great pride in, and I think that really convinced me that I was interested in technology as a field, and going into something in the computing area.
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Sir Edmund Hillary
Conqueror of Mt. Everest
Sir Edmund Hillary: Not really. I had a number of friends who were interested in tramping and trekking around our local hills, but as I got older, I discovered that I tended to be rather more energetic and stronger walkers than they were and so I always seemed to be pushing young ladies up steep hills and clamoring up trees to find out where we were. And I sort of quickly became pretty active in that sort of way. I still wasn't doing anything of great consequence, but I was loving the out-of-doors and loving forcing myself to travel quickly around the countryside and do very long treks and I enjoyed it very much.
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Sir Edmund Hillary
Conqueror of Mt. Everest
I had a grandmother who was an Irish grandmother who came out to New Zealand and she was a wonderful old lady. She lived up to 96 years old and, even in her 90s, she had great vitality and great enthusiasm and a tremendous sense of fun. I know that for a while I was quite influenced by her spirit she showed during the latter days of her life. But, I really have no idea why I wanted to keep dashing on in these ways because I realized that it wasn't the normal attitude of the majority of young people. Most young people were more interested in going to the movies or going to the beach or something or other. I really wasn't all that great on that sort of stuff. I just wanted to get out in the hills.
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David Ho
AIDS Research Pioneer
I began with an interest in this medical curiosity, never realizing that this was going to be a big health problem for the public. But, the scientific aspect was extremely interesting in that here we were looking at something that was transmissible, capable of destroying the immune system. That was new and one way or another the science behind that would shed light on bugs and on the immune system. So, I was gung-ho from day one of the epidemic.
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David Ho
AIDS Research Pioneer
We also knew that if you gave the drugs one at a time, the virus replicates so fast that you will create the mutations necessary to become resistant to the drugs. And, therefore, if the drugs were given individually, the virus would find a way to evade the drugs. And so, during that period, we did a lot of mathematics to calculate what it would take to control the virus with great potency and with great durability. And, for a period in 1994, it was truly an exciting phase in my professional career. One would go to bed thinking about it, waking up in the middle of the night thinking about what we're looking at, what this piece of evidence means and how do we take this and translate it into practical application.
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