Walter O'Brien

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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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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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

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My personality is extremely unbalanced.

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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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Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.

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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.

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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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