Quotes About Disruption

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

All progress means war with society.

Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.

There were a thousand words for dreams realized and only one common whimper for hopes interrupted.

When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to. You take them off their path, away from their plans, from their everyday routine. Sometimes it's also forcing them to die.

I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.

the disruption of the broadcast. Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too. "Like your electricity trap in the arena?" I ask. "Exactly. And see how well that worked out?" says Beetee. Well . . . not

Then Cameron Ramsey showed up, all sexy and quiet. None of us even know why he's in here. He definitely doesn't fit. I mean, the kid drives a BMW.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.

By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet.

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.