Only 1%? At least one per million, if not per billion (depending on how you count the denominator).
He's not just 10x, he's 0x10x.
You’re right. Let’s say he’s a 1%’er under a linear view of a logarithmic ranking of all programmers.
~0.00001‰
I wonder if he's lonely, with not too many people in the world who can communicate, operate, execute at his level...
That reminds me, Edward Teller said "von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."