Unintended consequences Quote by Margaret Atwood

“Have you ever heard of the law of unintended consequences?” He shook his head. “It basically says that any intervention in a complex system…

— Michael R. Hicks

“It never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different — unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“When scientists underestimate complexity, they fall prey to the perils of unintended consequences.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“If there are unforeseen and potentially disastrous repercussions to the rash acts of the ignorant, so too are there unanticipated consequences buried in works…

— Chris Turner

“Any endeavor has unintended consequences. Any ill-conceived endeavor has more.”

— Stephen Tobolowsky

“The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice.”

— Tom Bissell

“Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions.”

— Abram Gitspof

“Not every minor inconvenience leads to a major catastrophe.”

— Lynn C. Tolson

“Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable”

— Elizabeth Bear

“Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.”

— Mark Lawrence

“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions.”

— John Green

“The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were…

— Robert Masello