Quotes About Disruption

Another TX-0 hacker devised what was essentially the first word processor, a program that allowed you to type in your class reports and then format the text for output on the Flexowriter. Since it made the three-million-dollar TX-0 behave like a three-hundred-dollar typewriter—much to the outrage of traditionalists who saw this, too, as a ludicrous waste of computer power—the program became known as Expensive Typewriter.

Like it or not, the marketplace isn't stable. The world isn't stable. It's full of evolution, upheaval, and surprise.

first personal computer—that was the LINC of Wes Clark

two young Multicians, named Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, who would go on to galvanize the emerging microcomputer industry with a little program called VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet.

migration undermines cooperation.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

For once her new placidity was impaired.

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

That's when it happened. So fast, in fact, that we didn't even realize it had happened. All we knew was that one instant we were sitting at a lovely outdoor table toasting the beautiful day, and the next our table was on the move, crashing its way through the sea of other tables, banging into innocent bystanders, and making a horrible, ear-piercing, industrial-grade shriek as it scraped over the concrete pavers.

If what had happened in the past few months was not sensational enough

violent gale blew up.

Local white leadership was discredited in the eyes of black people, too, by their insistence on asking me, when we met to discuss the local events, usually with black people, if I had discovered who was the traveling black agitator who had come in and stirred up their "good black people." And had I discovered if there were any communists behind the disruptions?

When the deranged rooster crowed a third time, his crowing was cut off mid-squawk. "There, that does it," Miriam said. "No more heralding of a false dawn, no more untruthful messengers.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Higher education is a business that doesn't know it's going out of business.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

Most innovations fail. And companies that don't innovate die.

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

Well, a precedent is being broken.