The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

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

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

I am different, not less

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

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

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

My Pakistanis, you have not left me alone and I promise, I will never leave you alone in sha Allah

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

PDCA is the essence of managerial work: making sure the job gets done today and developing better ways to do it tomorrow.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.

Even if your Ego Doesn't Grasp it, this is the Truth: Everything is on Time Under Heaven's Net