Words matter. These are the best Walter O’Brien Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of ‘CSI.’
I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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.
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.’
I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
You have a core competency, something you’re better at than I’ll ever be, and that’s your magic – your pixie dust.
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.
I’m left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don’t affect me; most emotions don’t.
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.
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.
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.
Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.
I’m proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that ‘smart is cool.’
Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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.
I’m a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one’s thought of.
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.
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.
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.
High IQ individuals don’t like surprises and are pessimistic, because it’s logical.
Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.
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.
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.
