Quotes About Disruption

One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will, he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.

I want to make this a revolution, not an effort to squeeze out profits.

They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

El día en que presentó el Macintosh, un periodista de Popular Science le preguntó a Jobs qué tipo de investigación de mercados había llevado a cabo. A lo cual Jobs respondió, burlón: «¿Acaso Alexander Graham Bell realizó un estudio de mercado antes de inventar el teléfono?».

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way that reduced the role of direct sales to universities.

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently," he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

Hertzfeld explained that he needed to get his Apple II DOS program in good enough shape to hand it over to someone. "You're just wasting your time with that!" Jobs replied. "Who cares about the Apple II? The Apple II will be dead in a few years. The Macintosh is the future of Apple, and you're going to start on it now!" With that, Jobs yanked out the power cord to Hertzfeld's Apple II, causing the code he was working on to vanish.

At the end of the presentation someone asked whether he thought they should do some market research to see what customers wanted. "No," he replied, "because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

Las personas lo suficientemente locas como para pensar que pueden cambiar el mundo son las que lo cambian. (Anuncio Piensa diferente de Apple, 1997)

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently," he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking.

The Innovator's Dilemma.)

The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!

I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.

Techno-anarcho-terrorism

Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large," my host said formally. He sat in the swivel chair and leaned back. "What does that mean exactly?" "What do you think it means?" "That you plan to overthrow the government in hopes of causing a perpetual state of chaos throughout the world?" "They aren't much on reality at Xavier or Columbia, are they?

Predicting the long-term economics of companies that operate in fast-changing industries is simply far beyond our perimeter.

You know what this is? - Nope - It's a bowel disruptor. And you are just full of shit.

The near future? The future of anything is like some massive weather system on the horizon, pushing out thunderheads all over the place, and it's impossible to predict where the lightning will strike. And in 2011 it's worse than ever.

No more circuses.

Post-modernism, which has probably lasted longer than modernism, is the process of interrogating the aesthetic discourse. Disrupting the narrative. Modernism says that things can be right. Post-modernism says that nothing can be right. So if you ever wonder why nothing new ever seems to happen any more, find a post-modernist and beat the shit out of then. Wyndham

I was in the process of zooming in when the screen on the GPS flickered to black. I tapped it on the side, as