Capability is set by what can be sustained, not by what can be conceived.
Attributed variously across military history. The 1944 Allied advance across France stalled not from German resistance but from fuel running 300 miles behind the front.
In practice
- A startup's expansion plan names four new markets and has one implementation engineer.
- A restaurant designs a menu of forty dishes for a kitchen with two ovens, and every ticket is late by the second week.