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Quotes About Disruption

The man smiled. "I was not invited. I interrupted.
~ Madeline Miller
Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences," the count said. "The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence.
~ Maile Meloy
The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.
~ Malorie Blackman
The revolution is not a tea party.
~ Mao Tse-Tung
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
~ Marc Andreessen
Destruction is also creation.
~ Marcel Duchamp
She sounded like a blackboard being run through a table saw.
~ John Sandford
It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.
~ John Scalzi
Harvey knew what he was and what he was best at: He was a noisy son of a bitch and he was good at making things fall down and go boom.
~ John Scalzi
It's the end of civilization as we know it. And it's going to be great for business.
~ John Scalzi
It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.
~ John Scalzi
You are, at least to a certain approximation, human. You're not supposed to be here.
~ John Scalzi
But for the last couple of days Marce had been fighting a cold, which made his snoring both louder and more random. When it woke Cardenia up, Marce sounded like he was two cavemen having a very urgent conversation with each other about discovering fire, or hunting a feral hog, or something else along that line.
~ John Scalzi
Are you insane? You can't just barge into my office and tell people to fuck off.""And yet here I am," Kiva said. "In your office. Telling this extraneous dimwit to fuck off.
~ John Scalzi
The little engine roared and then stopped. Adam sat back for a moment, limp but proud, before he got out. The postmaster looked out between the bars of his golden grill. I see you've got one of the damn things, he said. Have to keep up with the times, said Adam. I predict there'll come a time when you can't find a horse, Mr. Trask. Maybe so. They'll change the face of the countryside. They get their clatter into everything, the postmaster went on.
~ John Steinbeck
One thing late or early can disrupt everything around it, and the disturbance runs outward in bands like the waves from a dropped stone in a quiet pool.
~ John Steinbeck
But it isn't silly, this preoccupation with small time units. One thing late or early can disrupt everything around it, and the disturbance tuns outward in bands like the waves from a dropped stone in a quiet pool.
~ John Steinbeck
Go out in the world and fuck it up beautifully.
~ John Waters
Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.
~ John Waters
You need to prepare sneak attacks on society
~ John Waters
The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.
~ Linda Gordon
My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Trying to shatter peace, even if it's not one you agree with, is the work of the mad and the wicked.
~ Unknown
All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.
~ Jodi Picoult