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
“Make a wish and it will be granted along with all the unintended consequences.” — Mary Burton Copy Share Image
Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I know now that I acted out of anger, and I learned my first real adult lesson: Anger is often followed by… — D. Love Copy Share Image
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
Because my business partner, Mitt Romney, was running for president when 'Unintended Consequences' was published, the media held up my book as… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed. — Marc Faber 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
“The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
“Policies focused on controlling price are likely to damage the quality of our colleges and universities. They are also full of possibilities… — Robert B. Archibald Copy Share Image
That's one of the unintended consequences of the women's liberation movement - that, in fact, the women that would lead this country… — Steve Bannon 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
“countries are producing medications for their own citizens, not ours. This is one of the unintended consequences of outsourcing a manufacturing process… — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses… — Jill Stein 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
“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
“Wealthy societies, for reasons largely well-intentioned but now producing unintended consequences, are making it easier for their teens to avoid the rigors… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
We often say that someone has exceptional political or social savvy, but what specific cognitive skills allow these people to handle interpersonal… — Justin Menkes 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
“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
“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
“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
“What I saw in Washington that October were a lot of Americans who were genuinely dismayed by what their country was doing… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Modern economics, by which I mean the style of economics taught and practised in today's leading universities, likes to start the enquiries… — Partha Dasgupta Copy Share Image