WALTER O'BRIEN

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.

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.

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.

The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'

EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.

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.

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

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.

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

I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.

Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.

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

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

Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.

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

You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.

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.