“For most things in life, the range between best and average is 30% or so.
The best airplane flight, the best meal, they may be 30% better than your average one. What I saw with Woz was somebody who was fifty times better than the average engineer. He could have meetings in his head.
The Mac team was an attempt to build a whole team like that, A players.
People said they wouldn't get along, they'd hate working with each other.
But I realized that A players like to work with A players, they just didn't like working with C players. At Pixar, it was a whole company of A players.”