166 Quotes by Graeme Simsion

Get this in your head, you are not responsible for the consequences of other people’s decisions.

We’re scientists,” I reminded him. “We shouldn’t be defeated by problems. If we think hard enough, a solution will present itself.

Unlike the stereotypical wedding dress, it was – to use a technical term – elegant, like a computer algorithm that achieved an impressive outcome with just a few lines of code.

Most adults with Asperger’s syndrome don’t know they have it.

I believe it is the duty of science, of humanity, to discover as much as we can. But I am a physical scientist, not a psychologist.

Look,” I said, “there are plenty of people in the world who believe our destiny is in the hands of some old white guy sitting above us dealing out rewards and punishment like... some old white guy. What I believe makes more sense than that. Some things are meant to be. Fate, destiny, karma-whatever you want to call it. The universe has plans- we just aren’t smart enough to know how it works.

But my strategy was to minimize the chance of making a type-one error – wasting time on an unsuitable choice. Inevitably, that increased the risk of a type-two error – rejecting a suitable person. But this was an acceptable risk as I was dealing with a very large population.

Don, problems that originate in childhood are never solved. Psychotherapists make a living out of that.

I had begun to realise how much I’d adapted to Keith’s needs and preferences. Just small stuff: what time we went to bed, which side I slept on, not cooking cauliflower. Allowances and adaptions anyone in a long-term relationship has to make, accumulating over time. But I wasn’t in a relationship anymore. I wanted to know what of myself needed to be reclaimed.