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.
Daniel TammetEvery culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
Daniel TammetMoment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all manner of thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas.
Daniel TammetLogic 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.
Daniel TammetWe will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
Daniel TammetNo relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.
Daniel Tammet