98 Quotes by Daniel Tammet

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that condition, within the autism spectrum in general, especially at the high functioning end, that I think are best looked at as pluses.

Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all manner of thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.