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.

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.

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.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

I succeed in life by being passionate about my dreams,

The quality of the results we get in our lives depends on the quality of the self-beliefs we hold.

Don't take 'no' for an answer.

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

The lost are never saved by confessing and the saved are never restored by believing.

It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.