I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

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.

It is easy to do good, but it takes a lifetime to become human!

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

Parecon is a very tough-minded economic vision and model, and it sets a standard for us to look at.

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

I think Jews tend to hold me in fairly high regard.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.