Quotes About Disruption

Videogames have existed for almost 40 years now, yet every year, we see major and unexpected advances.

Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

Man, I wish God wasn't starting to shake us up like this. Wouldn't it just be easier to care about stuff like dinnerware, golf, school uniforms, and getting to that new resturant that just opened?

But that was the way of it everywhere: there you were, getting on with things, minding your own business, and suddenly some arsehole decides to start a war.

The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments.

Just when you think you have a handle on life, it breaks.

The little shit was standing on it like he owned it, wet, sandy paws and all. "Arf, arf!

And the sex," I said. "It will be frequent. Possibly violent. You'll be screaming. Neighbors will make phone calls.

The Denarians want to disrupt civilization, and with the Archive under their control, they could do it. Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry.

The evening had obviously been moving along entirely too smoothly, I thought. Something had gone wrong.

Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose.

You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

Jacob looks like a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower.

You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you. Was there a next time? Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE

The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.

As Paul Saffo, a forecaster of large-scale change at Discern Analytics, observes wisely, 'Change is never linear. Our expectations are linear, but new technologies come in S curves, so we routinely overestimate short-term change and underestimate long-term change.' Never mistake a clear view for a short distance, he adds.

There are two types of people I have seen : those who fish and those who only disturb the water.

Drat! She'd invaded his hula hoop.