Consequence Analysis Quotes

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Lack of accountability in any decision making structure is not tolerable.

The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking.

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.

It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way he analyzes not only this country but also the history of this country, the images that this country is fabricating through Hollywood, and what consequence that has in our imagination.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

If you do something, expect consequences.

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

It is very difficult for us to assess intent, so we have to work back from actions.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of that. That's actually very valuable.

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

Conditions we face are the result of choices made and problems unmet.

The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That's how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading.