Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently.

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

The underground and the alternative is going to be substituted with being a virus.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.