#sequence

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#consequences #curses #fellow #fellow citizens #law

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it? Karma is not an inviolate engine of cosmic punishment. Rather, it is a neutral sequence of acts, results, and consequences. Receiving misfortune does not necessarily indicate that one has committed evil. But it is a sufficient indicator of something else. And that something else can be anything, as long as it is a logical consequence of what has come before. Consider: if you fall into a well, you are not a bad person who deserves to suffer—you are merely someone who took a wrong step. Or someone who had one drink too many. Or got a head rush due to poor circulation. Or forgot to wear your glasses. Or— The reasons are plentiful, and all plausible. But the chain of cause and effect goes way, way back into the deepest hoariest recesses of your personal past. So never rule out retribution. But never expect it. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cause-and-effect #consequences #debt #effect #justice

What is there about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?' Beatty blew out the flame and lit it again. 'It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequence. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#fahrenheit- #age

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#construction #program #refinement #sequence #steps

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative. ↗

— George Woodcock

#consequence #dramatically #negative #often #very

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#better #brutal #consequences #making #perhaps

Every brush stroke on the canvas, every dab of color introduced, the fine textures impressed in the paint--this accumulation of many small acts combines to shape a final work of art.  And so it is with life; each step, each deed, each brief choice builds gradually, day by day, to shape both character and destiny. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#choices #consequences #decisions #destiny #life

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#consequence #crises #financial #financial crises #modern

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#breaking #consequences #decision #disastrous #explore

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ↗

— Stanley Milgram

#consequence #disappearance #far-reaching #most #responsibility