From my own personal experience, I can't agree with this statement in software or in any other human endeavor. An individual in the 99th percentile of talent ma

From my own personal experience, I can't agree with this statement in software or in any other human endeavor. An individual in the 99th percentile of talent may be several times more productive than an individual in the 50th percentile of talent. The same goes for an individual who expresses the behavioral adaptations we describe as persistence, effort, and hard work. The person who has both rare talent and applies total effort may produce 1 - 1.5 (and perhaps occasionally more) orders of magnitude more value than what is average.