Max Scherzer Quotes

...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet now that it is here, one suspects that Hitler never could have consolidated his totalitarian control over Germany without its use. One never can tell what hands will reach out to lay hold on scientific gifts, or to what employment they will be put. Ever the old barbarian emerges, destructively using the new civilization.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced.

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

It's sad to see that something you have done or the decisions that you have made affect your children in a negative way.

Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.

It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.