A biography for Walter O'Brienhasn’t been written yet.
“You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.”
“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.”
“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 proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that 'smart is cool.'”
“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.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.”
“Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.”
“It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.”
“Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.”
“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.”
“I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.”
“My personality is extremely unbalanced.”
“Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.”
“High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.”
“A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.”