Unforeseen Developments Quotes

The law of unintended consequences, far more than the Constitution, is what governs the modern presidency.

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.

In world history man’s actions result in something quite different from what he purposes or intends.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

I never thought anything like that would have gone on.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.

History does not disclose to us its alternatives.

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

You just can't control your art in the future.

I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

Every week, there's a different twist and turn you're not going to see coming, and how you handle that is important.

I always like how a seemingly benign activity that was meant to be fun can turn into drama.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.