Quotes About Disruption

When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.

Bitcoin has the potential to destroy credit cards and banks as we know it. Maybe that is a good thing or a bad thing, but I like the idea that if someone needs to remit payments, they can do it without being gouged.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

The blockchain symbolizes a shift in power from the centers to the edges of the networks.

'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind.

As a consumer, I'm definitely waiting for what's going to come after banks.

When you change your lineups all the time, you lose that continuity. It's all over the place.

If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

People came to my house in limos looking for WallWalkers, and they made emergency calls, breaking into our phone conversations trying to order them.

I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did.

We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.

I created the Soundcloud big bang; you already know what's going on.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

I think that's where the world is going. People will not own cars; they'll have a service that takes them where they want to go, when they want to go there. And that's what Uber is.

I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.'

Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer.

I'd encourage more young people to apply their talents beyond finance and consulting and to think about reshaping how medicines are brought to market and how the business is run.

When I go to colleges for talks, I encourage the students to drop out.

don't tell me who to kill and when. It unsettles my tranquil disposition.