There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.

I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.

All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death.

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.