Quotes About Disruption

Lamanite warriors love to interrupt any time a Nephite opens his mouth

He fascinated me like an earthquake: unpredictable and potentially devastating.

The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.

Revolutionary situations do not present themselves to us only after we have made perfect preparations for them. They arise suddenly when the old order is unable to maintain its rule.

she supposed that once it had all made sense, when it was whole. It annoyed her, the way things got broken up so that they couldn't fit together properly any more.

Maybe you won't rock a cradle, Muriel. Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

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

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

The speaker over my head crackled, "There has been a Bell-Atlantic pager misplaced. If anyone has found it, please make this known to a flight attendant." It's under my left foot and you're never seeing it again.

Now shut the fuck up and watch some MTV.

Disruptive movement must come from within.

Life as it is leaves one no peace.

hydra of revolution,

Prince Hippolyte, under pretense of helping, was in everyone's way.

A revolution is always distinguished by impoliteness, probably because the ruling classes did not take the trouble in good season to teach the people fine manners.

War is the locomotive of change

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...

For a punk Penny could be an unbelievable drag.

Computers are Janus-faced, helping to create jobs even as they destroy jobs.

Most of the travelers, liars, thieves, and shameless personalities of the twentieth century are not tricksters at all, then. Their disruptions are not subtle enough, or pitched at a high enough level. Trickster isn't a run-of-themill liar and thief. When he lies and steals, it isn't so much to get away with something or get rich as to disturb the established categories of truth and property and, by so doing, open the road to possible new worlds.

The prophet speaks of things that will be true in the future because they are true in all time. The prophet disrupts the mundane in order to reveal the eternal.

When the Internet first launched, you had all these newspapers saying that the Internet was only used by bad people, to do bad things and what was the point of it. But the Internet changed everything, just like Bitcoin will.

I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.