Quotes About Disruption

The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.

If you hear a prominent economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

To understand how something works, figure out how to break it.

History and societies do not crawl. They make jumps. They go from fracture to fracture, with a few vibrations in between. Yet we (and historians) like to believe in the predictable, small incremental progression.

So the modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge, but, paradoxically, it is making things a lot more unpredictable.

that the burden of evidence is on those who disturb natural systems

growth in society may not come from raising the average the Asian way, but from increasing the number of people in the "tails," that small, very small number of risk takers crazy enough to have ideas of their own

Ele percebeu que algumas coisas precisam se quebrar para que o sistema se aperfeiçoe — o que é denominado de destruição criativa —, uma noção desenvolvida, entre muitos outros, pelo filósofo Karl Marx, e um conceito descoberto, como mostraremos no capítulo 17, por Nietzsche.

hackers make systems stronger.

Why was the change so abrupt?

Traders were replaced by computers, for very small visible benefits and massively large risks.

The strength of the computer entrepreneur Steve Jobs was precisely in distrusting market research and focus groups—those based on asking people what they want—and following his own imagination. His modus was that people don't know what they want until you provide them with it.

Even now, we are using technology to reverse technology.

you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions.

Socrates was put to death because he disrupted something that, in the eyes of the Athenian establishment, was working just fine.

When the world you're used to, that same old world you thought you knew so well, turns itself suddenly upside down, what can you do? Everything comes tumbling off the shelves of your expectations; nothing fits anymore.

Entrepreneurship is by its nature antiauthority. It is anti-status quo. It is always moving in the direction of making what exists obsolete. Early in this century the economist Joseph Schumpeter wrote of the work of the entrepreneur as that of "creative destruction.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.' That about sums up my whole life, doesn't it?

Even though the whole world had slid of its axis. Breakfast was breakfast. How dare it be?

Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.

We're roughage, Tyger said. If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.

Sometimes you have to take the whole concept of Art and throw it out on its whore ass.

God damn the geraniums! ...It was like trying to screw during an aerial attack.

The doorbell rang like a rape, or the tearing of ripe flesh.