Quotes About Disruption

You took me unawares, my lord. I was not told of your coming." - "And I seem to have prevented yours.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

Besides, the mhis that surrounded the compound could scramble anything from GPS to Santa Claus.

What's up with the statue routine?" Trez muttered. "Someone move your My Little Pony collection again?

Now about this storm." Wrath shook his head. "It's ripe nasty out there. I'm calling off tonight. It's a fucking snow day, assholes.

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

When Neil Young caught two women incessantly texting at a concert in 2012, he began mock typing on an invisible phone on stage until the women noticed and apparently left the show.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

There just isn't anything more invigorating than to read an article or hear about an entrepreneur using the term 'disruptive technology' that makes no reference to me as the source. When it's clear they really got the idea and they use it as if it were in everyday parlance, that's the ultimate triumph.

While it's not obvious to people now, in the long-run, the permissionless innovation that Bitcoin enables will ultimately improve the lives of billions of people.

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.

When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC revolution that ultimately dealt a death-blow to dozens of older companies.

If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie industry - from Betamax tape to DVDs to the Internet - in the end, it has always turned out right, because ultimately people want to see that stuff.