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Quotes About Disruption

In fact, the business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI. Find something that can be made better by adding online smartness to it. An
~ Kevin Kelly
Everyone stopped talking and turned to her except Rider, who proceeded to shatter his teacup with his fork.
~ Kevin McLaughlin
If there was a beehive to be poked with a stick, McDonald wasn't going to stand around eating store-bought honey.
~ Kim Todd
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
~ Kingsley Amis
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
~ Kingsley Amis
The academic and writer Sara Ahmed has written brilliantly about the idea of the feminist killjoy, and why it should be embraced – because feminism isn't about making everyone around the table feel comfortable. It's about being disruptive, challenging, and changing the terms of the debate, so that, over time, almost certainly with discomfort and backlash, everyone becomes freer.
~ Kira Cochrane
Quiere decir —preguntó— que no soy quien parezco ser? —No exactamente —contesté—, más bien que usted ha roto con su punto de partida, que, por así decirlo, se ha salido de su marco.
~ Kjell Askildsen
My concern, however, is that decision makers are too often caught in traditional, linear (and nondisruptive) thinking or too absorbed by immediate concerns to think strategically about the forces of disruption and innovation shaping our future.
~ Klaus Schwab
In 2016, two academics from Oxford University came to the conclusion that up to 86% of jobs in restaurants, 75% of jobs in retail and 59% of jobs in entertainment could be automatized by 2035.
~ Klaus Schwab
Many of our beliefs and assumptions about what the world could or should look like will be shattered in the process.
~ Klaus Schwab
Las empresas capaces de combinar múltiples dimensiones —digital, física y biológica— a menudo son exitosas en generar una disrupción de toda una industria y sus sistemas de producción, distribución y consumo.
~ Klaus Schwab
This book is organized in three chapters. The first is an overview of the fourth industrial revolution. The second presents the main transformative technologies. The third provides a deep dive into the impact of the revolution and some of the policy challenges it poses. I conclude by suggesting practical ideas and solutions on how best to adapt, shape and harness the potential of this great transformation.
~ Klaus Schwab
As media strategist Tom Goodwin wrote in a TechCrunch article in March 2015: "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.
~ Klaus Schwab
interaction across the physical, digital and biological domains that make the fourth industrial revolution fundamentally different from previous revolutions.
~ Klaus Schwab
Businesses, industries and corporations will face continuous Darwinian pressures and as such, the philosophy of "always in beta" (always evolving) will become more prevalent. This suggests that the global number of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs (enterprising company managers) will increase. Small and medium-sized enterprises will have the advantages of speed and the agility needed to deal with disruption and innovation.
~ Klaus Schwab
As media strategist Tom Goodwin wrote in a TechCrunch article in March 2015: "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."9
~ Klaus Schwab
strategies which primarily focus on reducing costs will be less effective than those which are based on offering products and services in more innovative ways. As we see today, established companies are being put under extreme pressure by emerging disruptors and innovators from other industries and countries. The same could be said for countries that do not recognize the need to focus on building their innovation ecosystems accordingly.
~ Klaus Schwab
the second machine age"2
~ Klaus Schwab
Creative destruction.
~ Kristan Higgins
...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Things begin, things end. Just when we seem to arrive at a quiet place, we are swept up, suddenly, between the body's smoothe, functioning predictability, and the need for disruption. We do irrational things, outrageous things. Or else something will come along and intervene, an unimaginable foe.
~ Carol Shields
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles." "Frank Lloyd Wright said that.
~ Caroline Kepnes
We have the iPhone, the iPad, and now we have the motherfuckering iMan.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
~ George Perkins Marsh