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How do you get from "great/crappy" to more talented and/or more determined? Doesn't the kind of site or the skills of the folks matter?

I ask because the initial Google search box page was crappy. We call it sparse today, but that's just sucking up. Brin admits that it looks like it did because he didn't know much HTML and apparently didn't care.



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