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Quotes About Disruption

For all your previous understandings, suddenly incoherence feels violent.
~ Claudia Rankine
Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
First, disruptive products are simpler and cheaper; they generally promise lower margins, not greater profits. Second, disruptive technologies typically are first commercialized in emerging or insignificant markets. And third, leading firms' most profitable customers generally don't want, and indeed initially can't use, products based on disruptive technologies.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
~ Clifford Stoll
No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.
~ Hermann Keyserling
Quite. Well., I haven't met the lady myself, but before she came we just had nice quiet larcenies, dopings, muggings, and the like. But since her arrival, it's been shootings, abductions, and now murders--the lot. I suppose you wouldn't like to take her back to London with you and give us all a rest?
~ Unknown
Our schools kept from us, for as long as they could, the dangerous, disruptive, upsetting knowledge of our own female nature.
~ Hilary Mantel
But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully — in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.
~ Hilary Mantel
We councillors think we are men of vision and learning, we gravely delineate our position, set forth our plans and argue our case far into the night. Then some little girl sweeps through and upsets the candle and sets fire to our sleeve; leaves us slapping ourselves like madmen, trying to save our skin.
~ Hilary Mantel
At this signal, the world turns upside down.
~ Hilary Mantel
Little did Prince Dain know that my real skill lies in pissing people off.
~ Holly Black
It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.
~ Holly Black
Alice had yearned to be a little disruptive, but she couldn't work out how you got started.
~ Liane Moriarty
Cecelia turned her gaze away from the girls and looked at the shimmer blue of their kidney shaped swimming pool, with its powerful underwater light, the perfect symbol of suburban bliss, except for that strange intermit sound like a baby choking that was coming from the pool filter.
~ Liane Moriarty
He is a breaker of things and people
~ Unknown
The UUe will cannibalize all other economic systems.
~ Unknown
violence is anything an airplane can do to a cloud
~ Lionel Shriver
Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.
~ Unknown
Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.
~ Victoria Wood
Chemicals are not currently tested for their endocrine disruption potential before they are approved for use and enter our environment, and there are endocrine disruptors in a vast array of products we come into contact with every day, including organochlorine pesticides, plastics, fuels, and other industrial chemicals.
~ Joel Fuhrman
For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Amazon drove Borders out of business, and the vast majority of Borders employees are not qualified to work at Amazon. That's an actual, full-on problem. But should Amazon have been prevented from doing that? In my view, no.
~ Marc Andreessen
FreshWorld is in line with my vision of supporting sustainable technologies in solving problems. I feel this is the next-level disruption in the fruits and vegetables industry.
~ Kris Gopalakrishnan