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Quotes About Disruption

We here see in two distant countries a similar relation between plants and insects of the same families, though the species of both are different. When man is the agent in introducing into a country a new species this relation is often broken:
~ Charles Darwin
One moment you're cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin crew slosh the whisky around in business class, the next you're in a screaming death-spiral with flames pouring from the hole where the starboard engine was meant to be before some toe-cheese puked a missile up its exhaust. It takes a little time to switch mode from business-as-usual to six-alarms-emergency if you're not primed to expect it
~ Charles Stross
2470 He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
~ Chinua Achebe (Author)
El modelo tradicional de promoción, comercialización y distribución de música ha perdido vigencia. Los principales sellos discográficos y el sistema de distribución minorista que adquirió dimensiones colosales gracias a la fábrica de éxitos de la radio se encuentran con un modelo empresarial dependiente de los grandes éxitos; y ahora ya no hay suficientes discos de oro y de platino. Estamos asistiendo al fin de una era.
~ Chris Anderson
When you can dramatically lower the costs of connecting supply and demand, it changes not just the numbers, but the entire nature of the market.
~ Chris Anderson
3. You can't stop free.
~ Chris Anderson
7. Sooner or later you will compete with free.
~ Chris Anderson
En otras palabras, la parte en más rápido crecimiento de sus empresas es la venta de productos que no están disponibles en las tiendas minoristas tradicionales. Estas empresas con un espacio
~ Chris Anderson
When you're violent you undermine everything.
~ Chris Hedges
You get those couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a couple is going to somehow dissolve or become less powerful or whatever. And that somehow the child is going to disrupt their happy stage.
~ Rosamund Pike
The 21st-century mix of jobs is probably going to be different than the 20th-century mix.
~ Ro Khanna
Mobile was Internet 2.0. It changed everything. Crypto is Internet 3.0.
~ Gil Penchina
Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.
~ Max Levchin
We all know that mobile's going to change the world.
~ Patrick Pichette
I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.
~ Jimmy Wales
The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.
~ Om Malik
Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.
~ Emmanuel Macron
I was a monster, a problem child.
~ Shaun White
I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.
~ Jejomar Binay
If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
~ Laurie Anderson
This book isn't an attempt to identify the fifty most economically significant inventions. It's not a book-length listicle, with a countdown to the most important invention of all. Indeed, some that would be no-brainers on any such list haven't made the cut: the printing press, the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the airplane, and the computer.
~ Tim Harford
Uncertainties are often useful in paralyzing an opponent's plans and actions
~ Timothy Zahn
Well if that's the kind of pride you're talking about, you can bet your ass, I'm going to mess with it.
~ Tite Kubo
art's purpose: "[What art] seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
~ Tom Hodgkinson