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Quotes About Disruption

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.
~ Leo Burnett
The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.
~ Patch Adams
A well-behaved woman seldom makes history
~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
~ Jeb Bush
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
~ Susan Sontag
No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.
~ Hermann Graf Keyserling
We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.
~ Don Tapscott
Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.
~ David Shenk
When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.
~ Blake Mycoskie
There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.
~ John Logie Baird
School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.
~ Albert Shanker
Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
~ Terry Pratchett
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution
~ George Orwell
Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns
I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan.
~ Oliver Herford
40Wednesday has been canceled due to a scheduling error.
~ Ceciil Baldwin
We need a politician who hates politics.
~ Will Adolphy
The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments.
~ Lois Greiman, Unmanned
Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't.There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.
~ Dani Harper
Sometimes, to fix something, you need to completely ruin something else
~ Evan Gans
Sopping, and with no sign of stopping, either- then a breather. Warm again, storm again- what is the norm, again? It's fine, it's not, it's suddenly hot: Boom, crash, lightning flash!
~ Old Farmer's Almanac
If you aren't making waves, you aren't kicking hard enough.
~ Unknown
The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.
~ Peter Drucker
The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley