o Briefly Noted:

(London) Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the World Wide
Web, on Friday officially received his knighthood from Queen Elizabeth
at Buckingham Palace for “services to the global development of the
Internet”. The modest inventor is widely credited with having come up
with the system used to organise, link and browse web pages on the
Internet. True to form, Berners-Lee, recently named by Time magazine as
one of the Top 20 thinkers of the 20th century, downplayed his
achievement, saying he was merely “in the right place at the right time”.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp

 

 

The best innovations come about through a sense of humility and genuine curiosity, rather than out of a hunt for riches or status alone.