Characters
Figures mentioned include:
- The Beatles
- Joseph Flom
- Christopher Langan
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Bill Gates
- Steve Ballmer
- Paul Allen
- Steven Jobs
- Regina Borgenicht
- Louis Borgenicht
- Louise Farkas, sociology looking at children of people like the Borgenichts.
- Ted Friedman, lawyer.
- Barry Garfinkel
- Bill Joy, American computer scientist, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
- Herbert Wachtell, Corporate lawyer, founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
- Martin Lipton, Corporate lawyer, founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
- Leonard Rosen, Corporate lawyer, founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
- George Katz, Corporate lawyer, founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
- Samuel Howard, resident of Harlen County, Kentucky.
- William Turner, resident of Harlen County, Kentucky.
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)