The book’s final, soaring act is the creation of the Internet and the Web. You see Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, two men in khakis, inventing TCP/IP on hotel napkins. You see Tim Berners-Lee, a shy Englishman at CERN, inventing the World Wide Web not for profit, but because he couldn’t stand the inefficiency of different computers not talking to each other. He gave it away. For free.
Walter Isaacson Published: 2014
Many faced failures before achieving breakthroughs, often ignoring conventional wisdom. Walter Isaacson The Innovators.pdf