Bottlenecks are usually at the tops of bottles.

Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95…

— Margaret Atwood

I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made…

— B. B. King

If you’re concerned about scalability, any algorithm that forces you to run agreement will eventually become your bottleneck. Take that as a given.

— Werner Vogels

The goal of inner work is to help clients unblock their bottlenecks and learn how to live in partnership with the unconscious rather than…

— Robert Johnson

The bottleneck wasn't, How do we make pixels prettier? It was, How do we engage with them more?

— Jefferson Han

With increased growth in the U.S. population, especially in urban areas, transport bottlenecks will only become more frequent and severe.

— Dan Lipinski

With a lot of the things that seem scalable, you will find bottlenecks you never imagined that you suddenly need to find solutions for.

— Parker Conrad

I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The fact that solar has gone down 80 percent since 2008 is astonishing. Wind is perhaps not coming down as quickly. Lack of storage…

— Christiana Figueres

Priorities are fundamental to politics because of inevitable information bottlenecks: these bottlenecks can be transformed by rare good organisation but they cannot be eradicated.

— Dominic Cummings

“If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.”

— Ashok Kallarakkal

To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.

— Leroy Hood

Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code…

— Eric S. Raymond

Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight…

— Gabe Newell

Make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today … not nine months from now. That’s one way to increase capacity…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt