Quotes About Disruption

There's something about being out here on the road that the hours aren't anything like what you're used to when you're at home.

I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant corporations of the day, and that they would disrupt them and make them less powerful, but they could never envision that Amazon would overtake them all.

A company in this kind of flux can be viewed as a portfolio of projects. Each project seeks to effect some change. In an older, simpler time, projects were a way to move from one status quo to another. The project was a disruption, but the new status quo, once established, could be expected to last for an extended period. Now there is no new status quo.

Harmony enables small things to flourish – while the lack of it destroys the great.

In short, California's climate, chaotic under normal conditions, is about to get weirder and wilder. Indeed, it's already happening.

Bezos's Amazon e-reader broke 550 years of precedent by separating the act of publishing from putting ink on paper.

if organizations want leaders to drive change, they would be well advised to hire moderate misfits rather than candidates who are a perfect fit for the current culture. A carbon copy of the rest of the team could perpetuate rather than disrupt the status quo. At the same time, hiring people who are radically different will rarely generate the desired change. More likely, these leaders would end up disrupting only themselves.

Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

And again that idea makes you crazy, that any dumb, stupid freak thing--being late for a puppet show, a lightning strike, somebody falling in a store--can bomb your plans to hell.

When I was seven I got dressed up as a city gent and walked into the Bank of England shouting ' fuck the Pound'.

The gospel comes to the world not like an aircraft seeking an existing landing strip but like a bomb, which creates its own crater when it arrives.

Many scientists predict that as early as 2024 an unprecedented event will happen that will completely change our lives.

History was about to be made. Or, if not actually made, then torn apart.

he should leave us alone," Zoe said, "and then we won't really need nose plugs." "Famous last words," Logan said.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

Harry Peake's spine disturbed the people's confidence in the proper shape and form of things, a confidence they had not known they possessed, it was stitched so deep in their sense of the order of the world.

it is a dreadful thing to have a whole carriageful of people draw up at your door and leap out grinning, the house all ahoo, carpets taken up, a great washing going on, the children bawling, yourself confined to the head, having taken physic, and your wife gone to Pompey in hopes of a new cook.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

So if you can figure out a way to get in a design war with a company big enough that its software is designed by product managers, they'll never be able to keep up with you. These opportunities are not easy to find, though. It's hard to engage a big company in a design war, just as it's hard to engage an opponent inside a castle in hand-to-hand combat.

Hackers are unruly. That is the essence of hacking. And it is also the essence of Americanness. It is no accident that Silicon Valley is in America, and not France, or Germany, or England, or Japan. In those countries, people color inside the lines.

la tecnología de la información, lejos de crear una forma nueva y estable de capitalismo, está disolviendo el sistema capitalista en general, porque corroe los mecanismos de mercado, socava los derechos de propiedad y destruye la tradicional relación entre salarios, trabajo y ganancias.

One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own initery, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see.