Quotes from Walter O'Brien

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

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.

At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.

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

My personality is extremely unbalanced.

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.

I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.

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.

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.

Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

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.

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

I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.

A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

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.