Quotes by Walter O'brien - Page 1

My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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Unbalanced
Extremely
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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Ability
Bureaucracy
Ideas
New Ideas
People New Ideas
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Subjective
Iq
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There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'
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Biology
Chemistry
Csi
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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Done
Flying
Hacking
Down
Tunnel
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My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
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Brain
Capabilities
Eaten
Gradually
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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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Entrepreneurial
Usc
Contribute
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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Typical
Funerals
Irishman
Weddings
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Disability
Over It
Iq
Stops
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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Different
Hacking
Way
Looking
Thought
Different Way
Involves
Problems
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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Logical
Pessimistic
Surprises
Iq
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I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.
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Dominant
Nervousness
Affect
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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Asia
Brightest
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
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Lonely
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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Dominant
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It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
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Generations
Honor
Houston
Smart
Younger
Contribute
Younger Generations
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Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.
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Assets
Benefit
Greatly
Unused
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Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.
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Adrenaline
Hacking
Inventing
Problem Solving
More
Coding
Feeling
Rather
Rush
Than
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You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.
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Dust
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The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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Software
Applied
Practices
Successfully
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I'm proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that 'smart is cool.'
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Cool
Curious
Fabric
Generations
Next
Proud
Smart
Part
Inspires
Remain
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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Positive
Affected
Articles
Occasional
Outburst
Hundreds
Instead
Invite
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At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
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Software
Languages
Developed
Foreign Languages
Translating
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Honor
Ireland
Los Angeles
Angeles
Great City
Immensely
Los
Received
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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Consulting
Coupled
Formed
Services
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When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can't ignore the EQ thing; it's going to kill sales.
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Ignore
Sales
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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Nine
Paperwork
Unfortunately
Iq
Reference
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I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.
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Inspirational
Houston
Tangible
Texas
Center
Contributions
Engine
Initiatives
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City of Los Angeles is my home, and it is my duty to lead by example, contribute all that I can, and help make the world a better place with the tools and resources available to me.
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Available
Better Place
Example
Los Angeles
Resources
Tools
Home World Me
Angeles
Home World City
Contribute
Lead By Example
Los
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The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.
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California
Careers
Educate
Engineering
Full Potential
Pursue
Center
Cornerstone
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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Unselfish
Extremely
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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Pet
Teacher
Teachers
Unpopular
Pupil
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Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.
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Managers
New Ideas
Smarter
Let Go
Survive
To Survive
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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Animal
Bird
Creatures
Docile
Ireland
Scorpions
Nickname
Fought
Pushed
Relates
Rural
Spider
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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Running
Ceo
Normal
Operations
Organization
Iq
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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Absolutes
Ambiguity
Engineers
Fuzzy
Requirements
Software
Applications
Broader
Eureka
Trained
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As a youth, I and most of the other smarter kids in school got picked on by bullies. I was a big guy - even at a young age - and would take the beatings for my friends, who were often smaller and scrawnier.
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Young Age
Big Guy
Bullies
Picked
Smaller
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Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
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Human Error
Humans
Percent
Afford
Ai
Anymore
Mistakes
Close
Companies
Developed
Wrong
Error
Gap
Technologies
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Having one of the highest IQs ever measured is as much a curse as it is a blessing. My parents were great, though: they were always seeking the most difficult presents possible for me - Rubik's cubes and things like that.
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Blessing
Cubes
Curse
Seeking
Great Always Me
Great Me Parents
Measured
Presents
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We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
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Fuel
Head Start
By The Time
Season
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If you've made enough money where you're not worried about the rent or survival, you start asking yourself why you're on this planet. Your point is to do the most good you can before you die - well, I could do more good if I didn't die.
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Survival
Worried
Good Money Enough
Enough Money
Rent
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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Lifting
Programming
Self Taught
Silly
Smoke
Space Shuttle
Accomplishments
Cloud
Crowning
Shuttle
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I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.
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Average
Average Person
Successful
Well Rounded
Twice
Across
Life Hell My Life
Naturally
High
Parents
Inevitably
Iq
My Life
Sharper
Super
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