Quotes About Disruption

The internet business model changed dramatically. You would never have an Uber, you would never had an Instagram, if you didn't have a connected computer in your pocket that didn't also have a camera or a GPS.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

My mentality when guarding a point guard was always to try and disrupt him and take them out of the offense.

Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

The smartphone created a huge economy, the cloud created a huge economy.

I was a class clown.

I'm not a fan of people coming in the clubhouse.

You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

I'm a communist, man. I'm going to break the rules.

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

For every company that sees the value of their capital go up, there's another company that has been disrupted, and the value of their capital gets marked down because it's not going to compete in the same way.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

I think it's fair to say that the age of traditional computing is dead.

I enjoyed harassing tram conductors.

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

The top principle for disruptive and sustaining innovation is that it has to have a laser focus on customers. Innovation begins with their needs and expectations.

Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.

When I hear the word 'disruption,' in my mind, I think of all these people in the middle who were earning a living. We will sweep away all that money they were earning, and we will move that to the people at the top.

You are not going to walk out one day and go to your local car dealer, and the lot is going to suddenly switch from non-autonomous cars to autonomous cars.