Quotes About Disruption

There was a gulf between those who had had their community smashed and their future thrown completely into question, and those for whom life still moved in an intelligible stream. It was not unlike the line that separated those who had come back from the war and those whose lives had been going on continuously while they had been away.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery.

I've long tended to regard the interruption of complacency as a kind of public service.

everytime you got somethin' good goin', look like somebody got to fuck it up.

The future is disorder.

In order to describe and explore these questions I needed 1) to examine the definition of paradise, 2) to delve into the power of colorism, 3) to dramatize the conflict between patriarchy and matriarchy, and 4) disrupt racial discourse altogether by signaling then erasing it.

truth is trouble.

The reason Vichy was acceptable to most French people after the defeat of 1940, for example, was not that it pleased them to live under a regime that persecuted Jews, but because Pétainist rule allowed the French to continue leading their lives in an illusion of security and normality and with minimum disruption. How the regime treated Jews was a matter of indifference: the Jews just hadn't mattered that much. And much the same was true in most other occupied lands.

The second he was gone the women began chattering like chickens at the sight of a fox.

I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.

If the disruptive change brought about by the Internet challenged you, brace yourself: multiple emerging technologies will combine to create an unprecedented period of change in the next few years.

Quantum technologies are difficult to understand, but that will not stop the disruption this set of emerging technologies will bring in the next few years!

The disruptive potential of quantum technology will make the change of the Internet era look like a small bump in the road!

Equilibrium is dead

Software eats everything.

These startups try to exploit inefficiencies in novel ways.

One reason so much money is flowing into the service frontier is that there are so many more ways to be a service than to be a product. The number of different ways to recast transportation as a service is almost unlimited. Uber is merely one variation. There are dozens more already established, and many more possible. The general approach for entrepreneurs is to unbundle the benefits of transportation (or any X) into separate constituent goods and then recombine them in new ways.

By 2050 most truck drivers won't be human. Since truck driving is currently the most common occupation in the U.S., this is a big deal.

The more unlikely the field, the more powerful adding AI will be.

This bottom-up overturning was also not in anyone's 20-year vision. No web phenomenon has been more confounding

My prediction: By 2026, Google's main product will not be search but AI.

Uber, the world's largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world's most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world's largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. Something interesting is happening." Indeed