Unintended Consequences Quotes - Page 2

• Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Goal, Psychology, Want To Be Happy

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  Real, English History, Confusion

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.

  Anthony Giddens

  Fashion, Effort, Flow

  48 Copy quote

• The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.

  Edward Snowden

  Offensive, Internet, Operations

  Source: www.pbs.org

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

  Stacy Schiff

  Exercise, Consequence

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  Technology, Television, Pieces

  8 Copy quote

• Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

  James Nicoll

  People, Might, Killing

  Usenet article, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.

  Charles Tilly

  Thinking, Hands, Political

  8 Copy quote

• But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Nice, Hbo, People

  52 Copy quote

• Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.

  Tyler Cowen

  Book, Years, Giving

  7 Copy quote

• Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Way, Angry, Consequence

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.68, Random House Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Thinking, Action

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses your name, where I am right now, they've got it on the ballot for a statewide referendum which enables people to.

  Jill Stein

  Names, People, Voting

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Hillary] Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be. Yes, we could get rid of Assad tomorrow, but that would create another political vacuum that would benefit ISIS.

  Bernie Sanders

  Knowing, Isis, Political

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It would proceed from the kind of understanding Chellis articulated: Life is Whole.

  Stephanie Mills

  Spiritual, Technology, Understanding

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC.

  Judith Curry

  Voice, Action, Scientist

  8 Copy quote

• What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure you are in your plan. We have to live with the historical record as it is, like it or not.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Law, Historical, Records

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Agreement, Holocaust

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source