Early Aptitude Quotes

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.

I was born understanding the language of music.

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do.

There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood.