Walter O'Brien Quotes
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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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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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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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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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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'
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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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Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.
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My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
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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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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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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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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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Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.
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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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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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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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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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The thinking in the show, the hacker thinking of how do you approach every problem, I think they're hacking life more than they're hacking systems.
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At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.