Quotes About Disruption

Useless, like a revolution.

Alles was ein Tradition unterbricht zwingt zu neuem Anfang. Und jeder Anfang ist blutig.

Stupidity is the fuel of revolutions.

A civilization's memory resides in the continuity of its institutions. The revolution that interrupts a civilization's memory, by destroying those institutions, does not relieve society of a bothersome caparison that is paralyzing it, but merely forces it to start over.

Everything that interrupts a tradition obliges us to start over. And every origin is bloody .

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

Sometimes a life is so entirely disrupted, on such a large and ungraspable scale, all one can do is face the ruined day.

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women." [ Commencement Address , Wellesley College, 1996]

There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body

You can't make a revolutionary omelet without breaking heads.

The primary function of education is to make one maladjusted to ordinary society.

Adam and Eve. What through a revolution was effected, must through a revolution be overthrown.

People who are intelligent, ambitious, and at the same time, in the grip of odd obsessions can be dangerous. When they occur, they inevitably upset things.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

They hadn't found anything, for what could they have found? But order had been disturbed, peace destroyed.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

Encourage creative disruption: Random hostilities are not what the organization needs, but if nobody's pissed off, maybe you're not pushing hard enough. "Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

But there are times when one man's sense of justice may tear apart the peaceful domestic lives of other people.

Social entrepreneurship is about disrupting existing markets that aren't working, and creating new ones to improve the status quo.

My pleasure in 'hell-raising' in class is my pleasure in chaos.