Depends on what you mean by "good people". You don't have to hire only from the top 10%, whatever that may mean to you. One of my main lessons from Brooks was

Depends on what you mean by "good people". You don't have to hire only from the top 10%, whatever that may mean to you. One of my main lessons from Brooks was always to put people in the roles that they are best suited for. In "The mythical man month" developers are not interchangeable. There are a number of different roles that needs to be filled, and different types of people are required to fill them.