The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

I am different, not less

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

I did theatrical caricatures.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.