Quotes About Disruption

I'm not the biggest fan of surprises and unexpected things but sometimes I just need something to shake up the boring routine of my life..

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

Like all those who enjoy the possession of a thing, in order to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it he had removed that thing from his mind, leaving everything else in the same state as when it was there. But the absence of a thing is not merely that, it is not simply a partial lack, it is a disruption of everything else, it is a new state which one cannot foresee in the old.

There was nothing on my calendar to indicate that this would be anything other than a short-skirt day. No need for a "believe me" suit.

The things we fear most in organisations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.

Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

Only rebellion flashes like lightning.

The unexpected is the plight of innovation.

I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.

War is just a damn nuisance.

You can't make a difference without making waves, and some people in the boat won't like it. So be it. Rock the boat anyway.

I need to be invited onto the back of a motorcycle and taken somewhere unfamiliar now and then; I welcome a degree of disruption, need a curtain pulled back, a hallway leading into some part of the world I've never seen.

By the late 1940s, then, city planners based their work on several key assumptions. Decentralization was the source of urban disruption and decay. They would have to slow or reverse the process while the remainder of the city, especially the central business district, was rebuilt. Freeway construction, at whatever scale, was the play a role in the redevelopment and recentralizing process.

Between the health care that we have now and the health care that we could have lies not just a gap, but a chasm. —Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, 2001 We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. —Albert Einstein

People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

Tech is a funny industry I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.