Quotes About Disruption

Chaos was Steve's strategy," said Walsh.

There are few modern political variables more disruptive than a dedicated prosecutor

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

Autumn passed, and winter came, and events of little consequence caused great commotions.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

try very hard to be at the cutting edge of problems. Very often that puts me so far out in front that people are upset about it, but that's OK.

The slogan goes, "Move fast and break things." But what if society is broken?

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, "There's a naked person outside!"

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.

The decoupling of power from size, and thus the decoupling of the capacity to use power effectively from the control of a large Weberian bureaucracy, is changing the world. And this decoupling invites a disquieting thought: if the future of power lies in disruption and interference, not management and consolidation, can we expect ever to know stability again?

La desvinculación del poder y el tamaño, y por tanto la desvinculación de la capacidad de usar el poder con eficacia y el control de una gran burocracia weberiana, está transformando al mundo. Y esa separación suscita una idea preocupante: si el futuro del poder está en la perturbación y la interferencia y no en la gestión ni la consolidación, ¿podemos confiar en que alguna vez vuelva a haber estabilidad?

He believes the world has entered "an era of perpetual irregular warfare.

The more drastic the erosion of any given barrier to power, the more unusual or unexpected the new players, and the faster they may attain prominence. Identify the barriers to power and whether they are coming up or going down, and you can solve a large part of the puzzle of power.

Para dicha de los pobres y malestar de los ricos Hugo insiste, de nuevo, en que va a barrer del mapa a los viejos poderes oligárquicos.

Power is spreading, and long-established, big players are increasingly being challenged by newer and smaller ones. And those who have power are more constrained in the ways they can use it.

The decay of power creates fertile soil for demagogic challengers who exploit disappointments with incumbents, promise change, and take advantage of the bewildering noise created by the proliferation of actors, voices, and proposals. The confusion created by changes that come too fast, that are too disruptive and undercut old certainties and ways of doing things—all by-products of the More, Mobility, and Mentality revolutions—offer great opportunities for leaders with bad ideas.

Los nuevos competidores, ágiles, insurgentes y revolucionarios, son tan eficaces y amenazantes en el mundo de la mercadotecnia y la publicidad como lo son en el de la política o en el de la guerra.

if the future of power lies in disruption and interference, not management and consolidation, can we expect ever to know stability again?

That's the trouble with this country, people keep messin' up each other's movies.

The Bots are taking over

The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn't it?