Bottleneck Quote by 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

“The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -sitting quietly in a chair with a pencil,…

— Michio Kaku

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

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

— Peter Drucker

“Performance is most easily improved not by adding things, but by removing obstacles. Maybe”

— Arno Ilgner

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

The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“I/O-bound programs are constrained by data access. These are programs where adding more processing power or RAM often makes little difference.”

— Jim R. Wilson

“Anyway, in a world of cheap PCs and fast Internet links, we find pretty consistently that the only really limiting resource is skilled attention.”

— Eric S. Raymond

“You are not inefficient! You have the capacity to produce desired results with a minimum expenditure of energy, time or resources.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“in the vast majority of systems, efficiency isn't critical.”

— Steve McConnell

“If it's not duplicatable and scalable, it's not worth doing.”

— Clay Clark