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.

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

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.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

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.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

I'm inconsistent because I'm human.