Quotes About Disruption

Any truth creates a scandal.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

can. If it's just about tests to graduate, grades to get into college, and scores for international comparisons — which, in large part, it is right now — school is about to be disrupted big time. I

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

forged and distributed large quantities of food ration cards to cause confusion, shortages, and resentment; sent out forged tax notices and other government directives and documents to foster disorganization and inefficiency within industry and unions … all this and much

Today there are a number of forces coming together in a unique way that is resulting in an incredible level of innovation, disruption, and entrepreneurship.

We are right to trust descriptions of Jesus given by those most disrupted by Jesus.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

The iPod was a leak. It was a danger. I brought it down to the basement and laid it on my little worktable, glass side up, and I got a hammer and smashed it.

Poorer children grow up with more stress and more disruption, and these disadvantages produce effects on the brain. Researchers often use dull tests to see who can focus attention and stay on task. Children raised in the top income quintile were two-and-a-half times more likely to score well on these tests than students raised in the bottom quintile.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

In 2013, for example, a seventeen-year-old Australian teenager living in England built a content-shortening app, called Summly, in his bedroom, which he promptly sold to Yahoo for a reported thirty million dollars. Now, imagine the next seventeen-year-old with a 3D printer, and you begin to sense the dimensions of the potential upheaval.

Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)

They had none of the modern things that we have today, and yet they turned their world upside down,

Satan is trying to disrupt everything that God is doing

Governments won't let Facebook use its superpower — negligence — to disrupt their economy. Enabling genocide in Myanmar is one thing, but messing with our ability to buy Chick-fil-A and Land Rovers is another level. — Scott Galloway, NYU Stern

All of this would explain why revolutionary moments always seem to be followed by an outpouring of social, artistic, and intellectual creativity. Normally unequal structures of imaginative identification are disrupted; everyone is experimenting with trying to see the world from unfamiliar points of view; everyone feels not only the right, but usually the immediate practical need to re-create and reimagine everything around them.

Silicon Valley is in the process of taking aim at health care, education, and the liberal professions as well.