#consequence

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The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.


George Vancouver


#changed #coloured #consequence #falling #into

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.


Edward Tufte


#celebrity #consequence #curious #i #minor

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.


Vernor Vinge


#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.


Jack Welch


#choices #consequences #make #such #them

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.


Margaret J. Wheatley


#anything #blindly #consequences #creating #failing

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


#consequences #ecology #every #every time #example

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.


E. O. Wilson


#consequence #dogma #evolution #i #religious

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.


E. O. Wilson


#among #between #conflicts #consequence #creation

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.


James Q. Wilson


#both #consequences #discussion #function #genuine

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.


William Julius Wilson


#crime #disappearance #dissolution #family #fundamentally