“And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly.
You don’t even-know exactly what you have done, but already you have reported it; patented it, and sold it.”
This best describes today’s tech giants. If not for the likes of guys like Kelly Johnson, Edison they would be baristas at best.
Their products are the work of genius, regardless. Considerable amounts of intelligence and hard work went into products like google search and even Facebook (try managing databases containing billions of items, modified rapidly, and have the whole system still stay stable. How many FR crashes in the last few months, again?). Even Edison would've been a nobody but for the giants before him. Down to the guy who invented the wheel, and before that, the people who invented language.