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 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.

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

What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

The meaning of the presupposition is the method of verification… we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which the statement is true or false.

Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.

Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.

I will resign as party leader to take full responsibility for troubling the public and party supporters.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.