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Quotes About Disruption

Surround your disruptive core product, the thing that got you to the dance, with a whole product that solves for the target customer's problem end to end. That will keep you on the dance floor for a long time to come. The
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
the real news is the deep and dividing chasm that separates the early adopters from the early majority. This is by far the most formidable and unforgiving transition in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle, and it is all the more dangerous because it typically goes unrecognized.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
~ George Eliot
the most efficient way to use military power is to disrupt emerging powers before they can become even marginally threatening.
~ George Friedman
Pero su meta no era ganar. Ni siquiera estaba claro qué significaba ganar. Su meta era sólo perturbar al mundo musulmán y ponerlo en contra de sí mismo, para que no emergiera un imperio islámico.
~ George Friedman
The United States doesn't need to win wars. It needs to simply disrupt things so the other side can't build up sufficient strength to challenge it.
~ George Friedman
Alphabet, is worth nearly $800 billion, only about $100 billion less than Apple. How do you get rich by giving things away? Google does it through one of the most ingenious technical schemes in the history of commerce. Page's and Brin's crucial insight was that the existing advertising system, epitomized by Madison Avenue, was linked to the old information economy, led by television, which Google would overthrow.
~ George Gilder
Around me, the morning traffic neighed, brayed, and defecated on the street.
~ Ilona Andrews
Nothing kills a party like an oversized metal hedgehog.
~ Ilona Andrews
but lately life had taken a baseball bat to her plans.
~ Ilona Andrews
and intestine wars introduced the reign of anarchy; while the sceptics, like nomadic tribes, who hate a permanent habitation and settled mode of living, attacked from time to time those who had organized themselves into civil communities.
~ Immanuel Kant
My God, that bloody casket has fallen on the floor! Some people were hammering in the next flat and it fell off its bracket. The lid has come off and whatever was inside it has certainly got out. Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder?
~ Iris Murdoch
and he wreaked havoc among the buttered toast as he said it.
~ Isaac Asimov
Beliefs can't be shaken short of a major shock, in which case, a fairly complete mental discruption results. Mild cases - hysteria, morbid sense of insecurity. Advanced cases - madness and suicide.
~ Isaac Asimov
Characterized by strong faith reactions. Beliefs can't be shaken short of a major shock, in which case, a fairly complete mental disruption results. Mild cases—hysteria, morbid sense of insecurity. Advanced cases—madness and suicide.
~ Isaac Asimov
Any accident involving a robot-driven car would set off another antirobot riot.
~ Isaac Asimov
The molecules of air caught in the sudden surge of atomic disruption, tore into glowing, burning ions, and marked out the blinding thin line that struck at Mallow's heart—and splashed!
~ Isaac Asimov
Beliefs can't be shaken short of a major shock, in which case, a fairly complete mental disruption results. Mild cases – hysteria, morbid sense of insecurity. Advanced cases – madness and suicide.
~ Isaac Asimov
trastocó la realidad y ya nada volvió a ser como antes.
~ Isabel Allende
he came to see me whenever he needed to flee a disaster related to women or money. His presence was a typhoon that completely upset my well-regulated existence and the peace of mind that I felt in his absence.
~ Isabel Allende
Defy, disobey, and disrupt is for young women who don't have the responsibility of motherhood, and for grandmothers who are past their reproductive years.
~ Isabel Allende
New Zealand's economy may be more immune... from the waves of disruption elsewhere, but I guarantee you, it's not that immune.
~ Richard Quest
They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.
~ Brian Grazer
Singularity' goes through a process of purification and signification. If you listen to it, you can hear quite a chaotic and disruptive beginning and by the end, you're in such an opposite zone.
~ Jon Hopkins