Quotes by William Greener

"Guy Spier, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, moved his family from Manhattan to a rented house in a quiet neighborhood of Zurich, where it’s easier for his beautiful but distractible mind to resemble “a calm pond.” Spier’s office, which is a short tram-ride from his home, has a library in which he doesn’t permit himself a phone or a computer. He has consciously designed his physical environment to support contemplation."
William Greener
William Greener

William Greener (1806–1869) was an English inventor and gunmaker. He developed a self-expanding bullet in 1835, an electric lamp in 1846 (patent specification 11076 of that year) some 33 years before ...