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:
“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)