An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.

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

PHP is rarely the bottleneck.

— Rasmus Lerdorf

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

Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second…

— Rob Pike

In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

— Peter Drucker

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

— Jefferson Han

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

Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

— Iqbal Quadir

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

— Penn Jillette

“The entire bottleneck concept is not geared to decrease operating expense, it’s focused on increasing throughput.”

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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

“Goldratt taught us that in most plants, there are a very small number of resources, whether it’s men, machines, or materials, that dictates the…

— Gene Kim

“Our minds have a bottleneck in the so-called “working memory” that allows us to keep only a few simple things in them at any…

— Mark Williams

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find…

— Donald Rumsfeld

As a company grows, things get stuck at the top. It can be a bottleneck.

— Belinda Johnson