I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and that you couldn't replace one of these people with 50 average people. They could just do things that no number of average people could do.

— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs at 44 (1999)

Source: http://content.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,32207,00.html

As quoted in Michael Krantz's 1999 TIME article 'Steve Jobs at 44'.

Topics: engineering leadership