Quotes About Disruption

What was great about the '50s is that, for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

A person does not want to please people, he wants to tease them.

A genius is born whenever he proves many facts wrong.

What sets Elon Musk apart from the rest of CEOs is that he cares about what an individual can do, rather than what he learned in school or college.

cuando el cielo viene a la tierra y encuentra que no está preparada, cuando el futuro de Dios llega al presente mientras la gente sigue dormida, se producen explosiones.

If I am the menace, then you must be the trouble.

Anarchy took its first breath.

Every synapse in the punk's brain overloads and goes ka-blooey.

Some people rioted for the sake of rioting.

If the world didn't need shaking up, why would this power have come alive now?

The voice says: If the world didn't need shaking up, why would this power have come alive now?

A única onda que muda alguma coisa é um tsunami. É preciso deitar as casas abaixo e destruir a terra, se quisermos ter a certeza de que não cairemos no esquecimento.

So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything".

set a cat among the philosophical pigeons.

Piracy is the new radio.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

There is no economic law that says that everyone, or even most people, automatically benefit from technological progress.

Along Maine's Kennebec River alone, thirty-six companies operated fifty-three icehouses with a total capacity of a million tons. But over the next few decades, cheap electricity devastated the business, first by making the artificial production of ice more economical and then by spurring homeowners to replace their iceboxes with electric refrigerators. As Gavin Weightman writes in The Frozen-Water Trade, the "huge industry simply melted away.

our longstanding idea of a computer is obsolete.

All technological change is generational change.

By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.