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Quotes About Buffers

Oh, I leave it to your imagination, Mr. Latimer. I would not presume to give you advice, you know. The advice of such elderly fogeys as myself is invariably treated with scorn. Rightly so, perhaps, who knows? But we old buffers like to think that experience has taught us something. We have noticed a good deal, you know, in the course of a lifetime." A
~ Agatha Christie
Stocks usually change slowly. They can act as delays, lags, buffers, ballast, and sources of momentum in a system.
~ Donella H. Meadows
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
~ Mary Douglas
What my people and I have done is to examine daily the queues in front of the assembly and in front of the bottlenecks— we call them 'buffers.' We check just to be sure that everything that's scheduled to be worked on is there—that there are no 'holes.' We thought that if a new bottleneck pops up it would immediately show up as a hole in at least one of these buffers.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The key is in the hands of production. These techniques to manage the buffers should not be used just to track missing parts while there is still time, they should be used mainly to focus our local improvement efforts. We must guarantee that the improvements on the CCRs will always be sufficient to prevent them from becoming bottlenecks.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.
~ Kurt Sutter
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
~ Mary Douglas