Quotes About Disruption

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological animal.

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

To fish in troubled waters.

Breakthroughs occur not when someone works within the established paradigm but when assumptions are abandoned, rules are ignored, and creativity runs amok

The average lifetime of a company on the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has declined from sixty years to a mere ten years

She was one of those who are born to make chaos cosmic.

Its entry on the scene was not generally peaceful. A flood of mistrust, sometimes of hatred, above all of moral indignation, regularly opposed itself to the first innovator.

Sometimes, you must play by the rules. If only so one can break them more effectively.

Since our school went MiNet blind, it's for seriously more like 1836 than 2036.

Dwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected!

Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!

He is the one who should apologize," he said to the foreman. "He broke down our door and sat on our fire.

Why is it I can spend a dozen Friday nights staring at the peeling walls of my "room" without anyone in the family so much as poking a head down to see if I'm alive, while the one time I actually have plans (major plans, plans that necessitate extraordinary focus and massive preparation), my stepmother suddenly suggests we sing a duet of "Getting to Know You"?

The touch of chaos in the order - art required that.

It was so avant-garde that the fire alarm sounded for a good few minutes before the audience slowly began to realise that it wasn't part of the performance.

Even Puck, who could usually be counted on to fart during dinner, was oddly quiet.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Leaf blowers have taken a world which was, on the whole, a decent place to live, in spite of talk radio, and turned it into a noisy and unpleasant vale filled with atomized bits of vegetal detritus.

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

At the same time, I had a deep sense of loss: all that time in the deployment army. All that wasted potential. The wasted humanity! Using people as if they were bots. Disrupting lives, families, sleep patterns...it was all such a waste.