Bottleneck Quotes

“The entire bottleneck concept is not geared to decrease operating expense, it’s focused on increasing throughput.”
― Eliyahu M. Goldratt, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

“The point I want to make about methanogens is that they were the losers in the race through a bottleneck, yet nonetheless survived in niche environments. Similarly, on a larger scale, it is rare for the loser to disappear completely, or for the latecomers never to gain at least a precarious foothold. The fact that flight had already evolved among birds did not preclude its later evolution in bats, which became the most numerous mammalian species. The evolution of plants did not lead to the disappearance of algae, or indeed the evolution of vascular plants to the disappearance of mosses.”
― Nick Lane, Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

“The act of delegation is a slippery slope for managers. Yes, you want to figure out how not to be a bottleneck in your organization and, yes, you want to figure out how to scale, but you also want to continue to get your hands dirty.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager