Quotes About Disruption

In terms of building consumer products, the U.S. and China are ahead of India. The interesting opportunity for India is whenever there is a disruption in technology, it gives every country a chance to leapfrog and take a lead. To take an example, China is leaping ahead in growing the China electric vehicle ecosystem.

Transportation, with self-driving vehicles, is going to be a big use of machine learning.

I'm not yet convinced that we will face an unemployment problem created by AI. There will certainly be some occupations eliminated - drivers of vehicles, many production jobs, etc. Whether this creates mass unemployment depends on how quickly this happens. If it happens overnight, it will be a huge disruption.

The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on a quality basis with an established product.

We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

Différance is actively disruptive. Language, thought and meaning aren't to be allowed the comfort of their daily routines. If that leaves philosophical language ruined, sick with its own instabilities, what about ordinary language and everyday communication? Can we rely on grounded decidability in the supermarket, the office and the lecture hall?

I came, I saw, I blew chunks.

Expected surprises.

photo developers everywhere are likely the reason my entire generation didn't devolve into total chaos.

Mary had disrupted nearly every relationship in her life. Would she now come between her sisters, setting one against another, their long time amity forgotten?

Be prepared for some changes. His voice dropped. It'll be noisy. Maybe dirty. Definitely messy. But I can guarantee you'll be satisfied when it's over.

It was as if real life had been canceled for the day.

It happened this way sometimes. We'd be having a perfectly normal conversation… or, at least, a conversation as close to normal as we could have—and then he'd say something that would remind me that nothing was normal, nothing at all.

An e-book can be produced and distributed at near zero marginal cost.

Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. 

Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. If he can squirm in anywhere where he particularly is not wanted, and be a perfect nuisance, and make people mad, and have things thrown at his head, then he feels his day has not been wasted. To get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour, is his highest aim and object; and, when he has succeeded in accomplishing this, his conceit becomes quite unbearable.

Sometimes, the unexpected happens. Sometimes, someone makes you break your own rules.

Finn Is God More disruptive than living in my house? You're clearly unbalanced.

Agendas in general don't work. The agenda is a thing that is perpetually destroyed. But through that destruction, something really interesting comes up.

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work.

The computer is down. I hope it's something serious.