Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived.
Geeks stay up all night disassembling the world so that they can put it back together with new features.They tinker and fix things that are not broken.
Tesla was a genius. he spoke eight languages : Serbian, English, German, French, Czech, Hungarian, Italian and Latin.
He could memorize entire books and recite them at will.
Tesla credited his eidetic memory and creative abilities to his mother's genetics and influence.
He could visualise devices entirely in his head and then build them without ever writing anything down.
Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills.
And even more impressive the man lived to be 86 and was celibate his entire life.
Tesla's contributions were not incremental they were revolutionary.
One of Tesla's final gifts to the world was a tower near New York City that would have provided free wireless energy to the entire planet.
The man who financed the construction of the tower shut it down when he learned that there would be no way to regulate the energy and therefore it would not make money.
Tesla had a hard time to differentiate between reality and his imagination, which is why he spent years alone in his laboratory working day and night.
He often said that the only time he was truly happy when he was cooped up in his lab.
Tesla claimed that he worked from 3 a.m. to 11 p.m., no Sundays or holidays excepted.
Tesla obtained around 300 patents worldwide for his inventions. Some of Tesla's patents are not accounted for, and various sources have discovered some that have lain hidden in patent archives. There are a minimum of 278 known patents issued to Tesla in 26 countries.
He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene.
Tesla died broke and alone in a New York City hotel room.