The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.

You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.

I was nonverbal until I was four years old. Back in the 50s, I was the kind of kid they used to just put away in an institution. But then you get the milder autism where there's no speech delay, but they're socially awkward. Those kids were around when I was a child. They were just called geeks and nerds.

A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, "Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad."

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

You can tame feral cats, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age.