Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

Jane Austen

Mots clés matchmaking meddling

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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

Karl Kraus

Mots clés humor privacy meddling

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Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.

Robert Buettner

Mots clés humanity human-nature humans consequences meddling meddlers human-superiority

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Meddling is what we do. It’s what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That’s the way of it.

Alastair Reynolds

Mots clés meddling

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