Productivity Quote by Matt Perman

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

— Seth Klarman

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

— Dan Lipinski

“System 2 and the electrical circuits in your home both have limited capacity, but they respond differently to threatened overload. A breaker trips when…

— Daniel Kahneman

“When we, system dynamicists, see a pattern persist in many parts of a system over long periods, we assume that it has causes embedded…

— Donella H. Meadows

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

— George Gilder

“Beyond 60% utilization, the average response time doubles. By 80%, it has tripled. As disk I/O latency is often the bounding resource for an…

— Brendan Gregg

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known…

— Sydney J. Harris

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Hours wasted in traffic represent not only lost wages but enormous amounts of economic activity that might have happened. Congestion indirectly increases consumer prices,…

— Joe Lonsdale

A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner…

— Werner Vogels

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

— Clay Shirky