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

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.