Quotes About Disruption

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

That social revolution, it is true, was no novelty invented in 1848. Steam, electricity, and the self-acting mule were revolutionists of a rather more dangerous character than even citizens Barbés, Raspail and Blanqui. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856

At first I craved the stability of the regimen, but it became mundane, and all of a sudden I wanted chaos.

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.

I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.

The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?"

It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

If you're not creating waves, then you're not pushing enough.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.