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Lawmakers who interfere with commerce and the normal creation of jobs in an economy run the risk of doing harm rather than good. Unintended consequences from regulating or legislating to achieve a goal can occur and cause havoc in the markets or an economy. -- Mark Skousen
Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over. -- Jeanne DuPrau
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences. -- Ian Tattersall
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
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on. -- Richard Pascale
If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies. -- Louise Slaughter
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. -- Leon Kass
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. -- Richard Schickel
Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences. -- Stone Gossard
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle. -- Richard Grasso
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage. -- Henry Petroski
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality. -- John B. Larson
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 only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there. -- Henry Rollins
We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will. -- Nancy Keenan
Enforcement priorities and arrest patterns must not lead to disparate treatment under the law, even if such treatment is unintended. And police forces should reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. -- Eric Holder
We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, somebody who's actually created jobs, manufactures products, understands the incentives and disincentives, the intended and unintended consequences of legislation. -- Ron Johnson
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences. -- Fareed Zakaria
Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates. -- Tim Walberg
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
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
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. -- Felicity Huffman
The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they can't identify bubbles, but when each bubble bursts, they flood the system with liquidity that brings about unintended consequences. -- Marc Faber
Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak. -- Virginia Postrel
One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy. -- Eric Schmidt
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region. -- Madeleine Albright
It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion. -- Sam Harris
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
parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences. -- Stacy Schiff
All history is the history of unintended consequences. -- T. J. Jackson Lears
Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality. -- Steve Allen
I'm just worried about the unintended consequences of the laws. -- Mary Katharine Ham
There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. -- Steve Jobs
The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history. -- Niall Ferguson
The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences. -- Ann Druyan
Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences. -- Barack Obama
I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect. -- Linus Torvalds
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions... -- Ludwig von Mises
I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences. -- Barack Obama
God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed. -- Marc Faber
There is no elegance in hate, but there is tremendous beauty in the unintended revenge of living well and being happy. -- Victoria Malin Gregory
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men. -- C. Wright Mills
There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences. -- James Nicoll
Word Powers:A beautiful bitch has four legs, not two. Even terms of, so called, endearment have unintended manifestations. Guard your grill. -- T.F. Hodge
Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion. -- Louise Slaughter
We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them. -- Daniel Webster
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
I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
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
An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy -- Wendy Wright
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results. -- Joseph Sobran
The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences. -- Jeanne DuPrau
I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions. -- Thomas Jefferson
Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean. -- Peter C Bunnell
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived. -- Dennis C. Blair
Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways. -- Kode9
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

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