Quotes About Disruption

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.

Future is not extrapolation of past

The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.

If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.

We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it's really here.

Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

Teacher: Why are you talking during my lesson? Student: Why are you teaching during my conversation?

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

Normalize cruelty and cheating and mix it with power. Legitimate power works the best. Stir in as much chaos as possible and before you know it, old norms are gone, and everyone is off kilter.

For fuck's sake, these humans are always in the way, trying to save me from stuff.

The most disruptive paradigm shifts often emerge from the fringes, challenging the status quo with new and unconventional ideas.

Great ideas are not polite. They never say they're sorry. They don't try to fit in. On the contrary, they force the world around them to make changes in self-defense.

The hallmark of innovation is surprise. No surprise, nothing new. Nothing new, no interest. No interest, no value. Therefore, creating surprise is a crucial step in creating value through innovation.

What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home.

On a small planet where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening orderly beat-sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, and artist, a scribbler-sometimes the beat is changed by one person at a time.

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. —Willem de Kooning

and beeping, obviously sure that I was either too stupid or too deaf to hear the racket.

They disrupted the performance

it is certainly not the chicken pox.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

So, he was breathing ice now? Great. He couldn't even have dinner with friends without some random new power messing everything up.