Quotes About Disruption

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

Open the doors, the Russians say, here comes trouble. On

Restructuring a job usually means restructuring a score of jobs, moving people around, and upsetting everybody. There is one exception: the exceedingly rare, truly exceptional man for whose sake the rule should be broken.

Even today few businessmen understand that research, to be productive, has to be the "disorganizer," the creator of a different future and the enemy of today. In most industrial laboratories, "defensive research" aimed at perpetuating today, predominates.

Bollocks!' said Burgess. 'They're shit-disturbers. You ought to know that by now. Why do you think they're interested in a nuclear-free Britain? Because they love peace? Dream on, Constable.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. TULI KUPFERBERG

this is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition.

Caroline said, She's terribly, terribly disruptive. So is reality, Hawthorne said.

When Silicon Valley says "disruption," this means they don't understand what they're doing, don't care to understand, and have only contempt for anyone who objects. "Move fast and break things," as Facebook used to put it.

There is no innovation whatsoever. They have literally invented nothing. Libra is possibly the least innovative project to ever come out of Silicon Valley. — Aleksi Grym

The process of neoliberalization has, however, entailed much 'creative destruction'

It needs to be borne in mind that there are always, and inevitably, two sides to the revolutionary coin. The first is negative and destructive, and leads to the drive to undermine the beliefs, values and institutions of the old order, which must be destroyed before a new one can be created. The second component of the revolutionary vision is positive and utopian—the image of a future that condemns the present and encapsulates the idea of a redemptive fate.

When we're alone together, I'm the destination. When I'm here in her life at school, I'm the disruption.

While nobody wants to say how bad it is, there's no way to pretend it's a normal day.

The house is a place where things can go wrong.

it takes only a modest amount of disruption to create an inordinate amount of mayhem. It's not necessary to wreak all the destruction yourself. Just begin with a fair amount and man's stupidity and selfishness will do the rest.

Abbott was running a one-man campaign to wreck his own organisation.

If Life Gives You Lemons, Make a Molotov Cocktail

Most of the time, when I make a big move, people say I am out of my mind. But I don't think about how I can add to what I have today.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

If you are anonymous, you are a less capable disrupter.

I admired anyone who could unsettle people.