I am a big believer in early intervention.

I am different, not less

We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my job. I wish animals could have more than just a low-stress life and a quick, painless death. I wish animals could have a good life, too, with something useful to do. People were animals, too, once, and when we turned into human beings we gave something up. Being close to animals brings some of it back.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.