Quotes About Disruption

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Airbnb is undervalued.

That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.

As we prepare to enter the cryptoconomy, undoubtedly it looks fuzzy, foggy, risky, buggy, uncertain and unproven, but so did the Internet in 1995.

Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.

Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.

For all the opportunities that arise from the Fourth Industrial Revolution - and there are many - it does not come without risks. Perhaps one of the greatest is that the changes will exacerbate inequalities. And as we all know, a more unequal world is a less stable one.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

Perhaps people with no experience will be unfettered by protocol, history and existing structures and will be freer to cut through red tape.

Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes.

When in doubt, freak 'em out.

Well behaved women do not make history.

Spotify will dramatically change my industry.

The spread of information technology and the long-term decline in the cost of computing power have created opportunities that simply did not exist before. Airbnb, for example, could not have existed before the Internet.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

As with any new and innovative industry, entrenched interests - particularly the hotel industry - have attempted to squash the home-sharing movement.

A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.

The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.

Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.

I love the idea of challenging what the standards is.