* Smith, Tara, The Virtuous Egoist: Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics, 2006, Cambridge University Press.

David Sidorsky, a professor of moral and political philosophy at Columbia University, says Rand's work is " outside the mainstream " and is more of an ideological movement than a well-grounded philosophy.

Like Nineteen Eighty Four, Ayn Rand's dystopian story Anthem was also an artistic portrayal of a command economy that was influenced by We.

A listing of Rand also appears in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, featuring the assessment " The influence of Rand's ideas was strongest among college students in the USA but attracted little attention from academic philosophers.

When Ayn Rand's novel " The Fountainhead " was published, Heinlein was very favorably impressed, as quoted in " Grumbles ...".

Ingtar reveals himself as a Darkfriend and furthermore, that he was responsible for letting in the attackers during the surprise attack at Fal Dara, but he redeems himself when he dies fighting for Rand's group.

From Rand's working notes for her novel The Fountainhead, it is clear that the character Lois Cook in that book was intended as a caricature of Stein.

Part of this area later was to be the site of a community known as Rand's Mill.

Rand's Mill Pond was later renamed Lake Benson.

It was Rand's first major literary success and brought her fame and financial success.

While that earlier novel had been based partly on people and events from Rand's experiences, the new novel was to focus on the less-familiar world of architecture.

Rand's intention was to write a novel that was less overtly political than We the Living, to avoid being " considered a ' one-theme ' author ".

Rand's work on The Fountainhead was repeatedly interrupted.

British socialist Harold Laski was one of Rand's primary inspirations for the character of Ellsworth Toohey.

" According to renowned architectural photographer Julius Shulman, it was Rand's work that " brought architecture into the public's focus for the first time ," and he believes that The Fountainhead was not only influential among 20th century architects, it " was one, first, front and center in the life of every architect who was a modern architect.

IBM 701 competed with Remington Rand's ERA 1103 in the scientific computation market, which had been developed for the NSA, so held secret until permission to market it was obtained in 1953.

The UNIVAC 1107 was the first member of Sperry Rand's UNIVAC 1100 series of computers, introduced in October 1962.

The UNIVAC 1110 was the fourth member of Sperry Rand's UNIVAC 1100 series of computers, introduced in 1972.

Rand's father did not believe art could provide his son with a sufficient livelihood, and so he required Paul to attend Manhattan's Harren High School while taking night classes at the Pratt Institute, Rand was largely " self-taught as a designer, learning about the works of Cassandre and Moholy-Nagy from European magazines such as ".

The core ideology that drove Rand's career, and hence his lasting influence, was the modernist philosophy he so revered.

Rand's defense of individual liberty integrates elements from her entire philosophy.

The Objectivist theory of art flows from its epistemology, by way of " psycho-epistemology " ( Rand's term for an individual's characteristic mode of functioning in acquiring knowledge ).

But particularly with reference to the Art Deco mode – a style which goes unmentioned in Rand's novel – Hood in fact showed his creative versatility in designing two Deco skyscrapers so radically distinct from one another as the RCA Building and the McGraw-Hill Building.

In 1993, a 50th anniversary edition from Bobbs-Merrill added an afterword by Rand's heir, Leonard Peikoff.

Dewey is an important source for Rand's underlying sentiment in graphic design ; on page one of Rand's groundbreaking Thoughts on Design, the author begins drawing lines from Dewey's philosophy to the need for " functional-aesthetic perfection " in modern art.

" The present novel, in Miss Rand's mind, was from the outset an ode to man's ego.

However, Silverberg stated that he did not know of Rand's work until after his own was published, and that his aim in depicting such a society was completely different from hers.

* John Galt, the hero character from Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged

Rand's royalties from the first American edition amounted to $ 100.

The title comes from Abraham Lincoln's " Gettysburg Address " and appears to have no relation to Ayn Rand's similarly titled We the Living ( published in 1936 ).

Some accuse LaVey of paraphrasing the Nine Satanic Statements from Rand's Atlas Shrugged without acknowledgement, though others maintain that LaVey simply was drawing inspiration from the novel.

She maintains that it contains large amounts of falsified information about LaVey's past, and that much of the book is plagiarized from Redbeard's Might is Right, Dee's Enochian Keys, and Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

Whitney was suffering from alcoholism at the time, and according to some sources this affected her performance, which resulted in Rand's character being written out of certain episodes.

It prevents Rand's rescue by both wrecking the android sent from the ship and sending a hand of sand up to stop a tranquilizer dart.

According to Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, Verity kept a passage from Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged on his desk, including the line " How well you do your work.

In the ensuing battle, Semirhage is captured at the cost of Rand's own left hand, lost when he failed to wrestle saidin from Lews in time.

Rand's father Tam has an appearance when he arrives with reinforcements from the Two Rivers.

Rand's inspiration for the play came primarily from two sources.

The remaining chapters cover Rand's views on ethics, politics and esthetics, which she considered to be derived from those fundamentals.

A former associate and one-time romantic partner of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand, Branden also played a prominent role in the 1960s in promoting Rand's philosophy, Objectivism.

Rediscovered in the 1960s through the efforts of Rand's lawyers, Erika Holzer and Henry Mark Holzer, these films were re-edited into a new version with English subtitles composed by Erika Holzer and Revision co-Producer Duncan Scott.

After her return to New York, she also became part of Ayn Rand's circle, contributed to Rand's magazine, The Objectivist, and presented a lecture series on non-fiction writing at the Nathaniel Branden Institute in the 1960s, although the two women later parted ways.