My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.

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'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'm inconsistent because I'm human.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.