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“Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!”
Andrew Levkoff“It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.”
Peter Ackroyd“The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.”
Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley“Think about rethinking what you're thinking, before speaking the thought you were thinking, and cause unintended consequences for speaking what you probably shouldn't have been thinking.”
T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"“The multiple failures of top-down design, and the omnipresence of unintended consequences, can be attributed in large part, to the absence of relevant information.”
Cass R. Sunstein“New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.”
John Key“The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."~ Glenn Aparicio Parry”
Glenn Aparicio Parry, Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature“I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.”
Steve Jobs“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act as they did. A historian customarily displays a certain diffidence about trying to influence events, knowing that unanticipated developments often lead to unintended consequences.”
Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education“I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.”
Stuart Woods, Unintended Consequences