Quotes About Variability

when product developers choose to operate their processes at high levels of utilization, they create unnecessary and wasteful variability in their processes. It is important to realize that this variability is a self-inflicted wound.

Cadence is the use of a regular, predictable rhythm within a process. This rhythm transforms unpredictable events into predictable events. It plays an important role in preventing variability from accumulating in a sequential process.

Reducing batch size reduces variability, and with lower variability, we may find our existing capacity is already sufficient.

Hell's different things to different people and different things to the same person at different times.

When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.

Parents who have more than one child are very aware that, while we certainly have an impact on our child's development, it has as much to do with them as with us. "I can't believe how different my kids are" should inform us that child development is an uneven process only partly tied to parenting (and no one knows exactly how much that "partly" is).

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

Men are naturally unequal. They are unequal members of one family, in which one can be brilliant, another mediocre, and another an imbecile. Hereditary substance is a mystery.

We have to accept the changes of Life not every day is the same.

Life challenges are inevitable and it's severity differs in each individual.

He thought she was like all four seasons wrapped in one unpredictable day. She could go from sunshine to blizzard, from heat wave to ice storm, from gentle breeze to lightning bolt, all in the blink of an eye. And he had no idea what sort of weather was coming next.

As an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

trust that you now perceive the same act may wear as many different hues of right or wrong as the rainbow, according to the atmosphere in which it is done.

Life is too unpredictable to live by a schedule.

'Results may vary.' means that it probably wont work for you at all.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

In so many people there are different strata which are not alike (there were in her her father's character, and her mother's); we traverse first one, then the other. But, next day, their order is reversed. And finally we do not know who is going to allot the parts, to whom we are to appeal for a hearing. Gilberte was like one of those countries with which we dare not form an alliance because of their too frequent changes of government.

Of a different order again were those of M. de Charlus, as we shall presently see, with people wholly unlike Mme. de Villeparisis. In spite of which we must bear in mind that the opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk, are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

Cold enough to freeze your Winnebago one day, melting all over the place the next.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

I am a feather for each wind that blows

Python's super is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you're going to get!

polymorphism means that the meaning of an operation depends on the object being operated on.