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" Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done. "
Walter O'Brien
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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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" It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.' "
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Honor
Houston
" 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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Me
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" There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.' "
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Kids
Going
" 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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" 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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Started
" 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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Losing
Business
Ignore
" The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life. "
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Best
Challenge
" Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas. "
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New
Bureaucracy
Ideas
" 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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World
Place
City
" 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
University
Help
" I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't. "
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Anxiety
Affect
Most
" 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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People
Positive
Read
" 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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Core
Your
Better
" 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. "
Walter O'Brien
Spider
Mine
Animal
" Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling. "
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Feeling
Rush
More
" 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. "
Walter O'Brien
Space
Smoke
Family
" 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. "
Walter O'Brien
Moment
Training
Software
" 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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Two
Start
Season
" I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong. "
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Brain
Feeling
Side
" 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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Organization
Person
Back
" 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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Survive
Why
Trying
" It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC. "
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Pleasure
Community
USC
" Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets. "
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Benefit
Mental
Much
" 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
Wrong
Time
" 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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Home
Fit
Know
" 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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Good
People
Philosophy
" 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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Potential
Push
Science
" 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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Great
Always
Blessing
" High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical. "
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