“Make a wish and it will be granted along with all the unintended consequences.” — Mary Burton Copy Share Image
I'm just worried about the unintended consequences of the laws. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences. — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences -… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“When scientists underestimate complexity, they fall prey to the perils of unintended consequences.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over. — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle. — Richard Grasso Copy Share Image
“Micromanagement could have unintended consequences. Instead of getting people in line, it may cause them to leave.” — Diane Polnow Copy Share Image
“We cannot ignore the meaning of mad cow. It is one more warning about unintended consequences, about human arrogance and the blind… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“as per the law of unintended consequences, no matter what people’s intention when they do something, they rarely know what the ultimate… — James Wallman Copy Share Image
“5. Search for Leverage Points and Potential Unintended Consequences of Interventions—When a model produces dynamic behavior like the real system, start to… — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
One of the strangest unintended consequences of abortion, of legalized abortion, was that it drives the crime rate down because what abortion… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is… — David Cecil Copy Share Image
“It is arguable, especially in retrospect, that the Marshall Plan had some unfortunate, though unintended, consequences. Together with the Truman Doctrine, it… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“If being premenstrual is “innocence,” does that make those of us with periods guilty? And this really gets to the heart of… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life,… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“A society is an organic system that develops spontaneously, governed by myriad interactions and adjustments that no human mind can pretend to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
“The Republican Party's gerrymandering efforts were also having unintended consequences. For years the party had poured resources into state legislatures in order… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The Volstead Act, prohibiting the production, sale, and transport of “intoxicating liquors,” became law on January 17, 1920. Prohibition didn’t prohibit much,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“Because incentives trigger a primitive, engrained response, they produce a number of unintended consequences. First, they strongly reinforce self-aggrandizement, so much so… — Carol Sanford Copy Share Image
“Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century — a set of attitudes,… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“Complex operations, in which agencies assume complementary roles and operate in close proximity-often with similar missions but conflicting mandates-accentuate these tensions. The… — Michael Miklaucic Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, there’s a blank mind. Then that mind gets an idea in it, and the trouble begins, because the mind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“In 1995, the gray wolf was reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park after a seventy-year hiatus. Scientists expected an ecological ripple effect, but… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“The Republicans did not set out to establish a strong national state or to facilitate the industrial revolution. They believed strongly in… — David R. Goldfield Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche's case is an especially interesting one for whoever wishes to undertake a critical examination of the “neotraditionalist” path. Two main reasons… — Luc Ferry Copy Share Image
“In many respects, Barack Obama’s neo-socialism is neoconservatism’s mirror image. Openly committed to ending the Reagan era, Obama is a firm believer… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image