Bottlenecks Quotes

• The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

  Scott Berkun

  Creativity, Clarity, Code

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

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Bottles

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• 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 is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Inventory, Hours, Lost

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• You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Mirages, Hours, Saved

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

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Technology, World

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• Bottlenecks are usually at the tops of bottles.

  Ed Bliss

  Bottles

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

  Iqbal Quadir

  Freedom, Top Down, Bottles

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• 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 problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Responsibility, Decision, President

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. In my experience, the people closest to the problems are often in the best position to see the solutions. The key here is to empower and not be the bottleneck.

  Colin Powell

  Keys, People, Empowering

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• 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

  Running, Agreement, Algorithms

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• As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

  Diane Ackerman

  War, Ice, Age

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.136, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is

  Rob Pike

  Trying, Speed, Program

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• Make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today … not nine months from now. That’s one way to increase capacity at the bottlenecks. The other way you increase bottleneck capacity is to take some of the load off the bottlenecks and give it to non-bottlenecks.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Giving, Today, Nine

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.149, Routledge

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

  Jefferson Han

  Pixels

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• I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

  Muddy Waters

  Christmas, Running, Crazy

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95 per cent, which is enormous. But again, I'm actually giving you grounds for optimism: There were enough to continue. The five per cent who made it through are what you need to survive a bottleneck, which we have been through before.

  Margaret Atwood

  America, Giving, Optimism

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.

  Vince Cable

  Issues, Use, Association

  "Vince Cable hits out at 'backward' Tory rightwingers" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• The goal of inner work is to help clients unblock their bottlenecks and learn how to live in partnership with the unconscious rather than at its mercy.

  Robert Johnson

  Goal, Clients, Helping

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• The fact that solar has gone down 80 percent since 2008 is astonishing. Wind is perhaps not coming down as quickly. Lack of storage - batteries - is a bottleneck. That makes it very difficult to put large amounts of renewable energy on the grid.

  Christiana Figueres

  Wind, Energy, Batteries

  "We'll Have a Global Climate Treaty in 2015". Interview with Catherine Brahic, www.slate.com. March 22, 2014.

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• Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.

  Gabe Newell

  Election Process, People, Choices

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• PHP is rarely the bottleneck.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  "PHP Performance" Talk in San Francisco, talks.php.net. July 29, 2010.

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• One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer on SNL. I was like, "I don't know if you remember me?" And he was like, "Oh my god, yeah!" He's a big photography fan, as am I.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Photography, Couple, Kansas

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.

  B. B. King

  Guitar, Hands, Play

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