James Howard Kunstler

Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric.

American Author

Antony Starr

We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know anything about, or hopefully don't know anything about. I think 'Banshee' gives people a chance to do that pretty safely because we all know there's a solid buffer between the show and reality.

New Zealander Actor

Jerry Greenfield

Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it's more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it's a very powerful combination.

American Businessman

Daniel Yergin

But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.

Dan Schulman

We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have a buffer in one way or another. We have a savings account, or we have credit that we can go to. The underserved don't have that luxury.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the tips of shoelaces. If you lose the tips, the ends start fraying.

Australian Scientist

Marvin Minsky

I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of things you're trying to learn. It protects the short-term memory buffers. That's one theory of pleasure.

American Scientist

Aimee Bender

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

American Novelist

Toni Morrison

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Jerry Harrison

I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.

American Musician

Can describe anything offering protection, not only physical objects.

Metaphorical Use

A buffer softens an impact; a barrier stops something from passing through.

Buffer Vs Barrier

Remember, a computing buffer holds data briefly while it's in transit.

Temporary Storage

Overloading a buffer can cause errors, known as buffer overflows.

Avoiding Overflow

In chemistry, buffers help maintain stability in an environment or substance.

Chemical Stability

Buffers are key in biology to maintain life's delicate balances.

Biological Context

Buffers in machinery often relate to safety and prevention of damage.

Physical Safety

Buffers on trains and tracks are specific types intended to absorb shock.

Train Buffers

When 'buffer' is a verb, it often means to reduce the severity of something.

Soften Impact

Buffer can refer to lessening emotional impacts, not just physical ones.

Emotional Buffer

 before the last escalation of violence the lives they were living would hardly be imaginable to people fortunate enough to live in peace along with the great deal of land that the family has lost due to the establishment of the buffer zones the remaining land was considered to be too dangerous to use so workers

Through the shattered...

 and mouth and hands of the computer. Basically, it provides a way for the computer to interact with its environment. But it also acts like a buffer to keep the CPU from being overwhelmed by distractions. In this case, the I/O subsystem decides that your mouse click is pretty important

Inside your computer -...

 by breaking down detritus and recycling nutrients. This creates the conditions for sea grass beds and shellfish to thrive. Sea cucumber excretions can also aid in coral formation and may play a role in buffering marine environments from ocean acidification.

This sea creature...

 uses these corner blocks to protect their tables in shipment. They used to use a plastic packaging buffer, but we were able to give them the exact same physical performance with our grown material. Best of all, when it gets to the customer, it's not trash.

Eben Bayer: Are...

 He didn't try to invent a buffer between me and reality. It took me a while to understand the power of how he guided me through those nights. What he showed me is that courage is not an absence of fear; courage is fear walking.

The gift and power of...

 the smallest drops can buffer babies from the biggest global challenges. But understanding breast milk is not just about messaging to mothers and policy makers. It's also about understanding what is important in breast milk

What we don't know about...

 It turns out that the land we were losing was our buffer from the sea. I volunteered to interact with the graphics on the wall, and in an instant my life changed for the second time in two years.

Climate change will...

 believes that the livestock act as a buffer bats prefer passive herds to people reducing the attacks on people but as vampire bat populations increase and more lifestyle become infected this

Vampire Bats Biting...

 an L and an O -- and then a buffer overflow crashed the system. Two letters, an L and an O, now a worldwide force.

Regina Dugan: From...

 we're breeding just a few months ago and they grow very very quickly very important buffer food for lots and lots