Quotes About Disruption

The PC is the LSD of the '90s.

The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess.

The man who runs naked across a football field certainly disrupts, but he does not change the rules of the game. The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess. —

Love emerges out of a disruption, and it lives on through dissymmetry.

The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

A great defensive lineman causes problems all day long for an offensive line - problems that don't have a way of getting into the official stats.

The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.

At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

One of the things I've come to realize is that, like every new technology and like every disruption, broadband has downsides.

It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

It's like a kid opening gifts on Christmas. The people who come to re:Invent are really excited about what the cloud is letting them do.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me.

Katrina opened a window that allowed us to peer into the real America, but as soon as the disruptive event was over, that window closed, and the country's consciousness went back to its usual state of ignoring the fact that black people, especially low-income black people, are daily denied democracy and equality in this country.

the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments

You have to wake people up! To revolutionize their way of identifying things...you've got to create images they won't accept.

Song of the Turtle" is a poem that dates back to the Ghanaian period: We lived in freedom Before man appeared: Our world was undisturbed, One day followed the other joyfully. Dissent was never heard. Then man broke into our forest, With cunning and belligerence. He pursued us With greed and envy: Our freedom vanished.

She was doing it again. She was crawling down his collar and the back of his shirt and getting under his skin. Nobody else ever got close enough to disturb his equilibrium. Only Lily had the unmitigated gall to assume they were equals. I'm

Change only comes through breakdown or revolution.

Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's Technology

To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.