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:
“Philosophy is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—
which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.”
—Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“The major men
That is different. They are characters beyond
Reality, composed thereof. They are
The fictive man created out of men.
They are men but artificial men.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)