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

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Source : "Temple Grandin On The Secret To Success For Kids With Autism". Interview with Macrina Cooper-White, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2014.

Temple Grandin

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“In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.”
“When I work out, I wear two in-the-ear hearing aids for comfort, and then I wear the behind-the-ears for my day-to-day non-physical activities, when I need maximum hearing and to communicate with people and do interviews!”
“You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.”
“If you try to shoot me, I will have to shoot you back and I promise I will not miss.”

Source : "Make it end, Jack, be quick" by Jane Simon, www.mirror.co.uk. August 4, 2003.
“You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!”
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

Source : FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”
“Well... I still can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. These politicians are such sleazebags that you just don't know. You can't really get anything from a lot of them once they get into power. They totally forget about all their commitments. The poor people elect them, and they forget about all the poor people.”
“If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.”

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