I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.

Autism is part of who I am.

Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed.

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?