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I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.
Between Cross Divide Like
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Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

Language Me Mind Pictures
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My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.
Brings Google Images Key
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I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.

Always Autism College College Professor
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From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

Autism Disorder Part Scientific
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Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'

Autism Cup Hear Just
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One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Always Autism Been Big
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It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.

Autistic Because Child Go
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Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Analysis Determine Effective Enable
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Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs.

Care Care Costs Costs Health
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I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

Comfort Comfort Zone Fail Good
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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.

Actually Clothes Feel Get
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

Am Attention Control Control Freak
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We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.

Affectionate After Being Close
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'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

Admit Am Away Children
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

Accept Become Comfortable Get
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In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Company Doing Everything Else
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The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

About Know People Question
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There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Analytic Big Camp Focused
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My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

About Actually Any Being
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Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

Accomplish Built Company Connected
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At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

Build Capacity Connect Doing
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In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

Addition Also Better Building
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This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Amaze Bets Big Cycle
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No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Being Come Create Done
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I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

App Around Awesome Facebook
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I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Alarm Blackberry Clock Me
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Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
Closer Desktop Lot Mobile
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For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

Advantage Allowing Application Because
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The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

Accuse College Did Excuse
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I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

Academic Complex Culture Elegant
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I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Able Communicate Day Even
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I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

Dorm Ever Facebook Literally
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
Always Fashion Kid Loved
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.

Boring Hollywood Most Outside
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People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

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I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

Always Business Circles Move
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No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.

Believed Group Life People
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Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Pilot Scripts Simply Time
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Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
Comedy Dancing First Love
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Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

Big Birth Emmy First
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Education Foundation State Youth
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Athenian Citizen Greek World
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What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Belongs Wine Drink Others
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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

Away Child Cup Drinking
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Between Difference Finger Fool
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Counselors Distinguish Generally Leaders
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Anybody Feelings Hurt Philosopher
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The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Great Lead Little Thief
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