Tim Berners-Lee in his book:

I was thirty-four years old when I first presented the idea for the World Wide Web. At the time, I was working in Switzerland as a programmer at a particle accelerator. No one was asking for the web, and almost no one expected anything to come from it. I had never been to Silicon Valley, had no connection to venture capital, and was far from computer science research centres like Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I had no track record as an inventor, held no patents, had never started a business, had never managed a team of people, and had published only a couple of research papers.

The origin story of the web is bananas, especially given how far removed it is from how we make so much software now-a-days.

Albert Einstein admired Niels Bohr for:

uttering his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who [believed himself to be] in the possession of definite truth.

Basically the opposite of opinions on the internet.

Also this (from the book):

Original work is inherently rebellious.