Quotes About Disruption

Gentry's neighbor is still blasting the same teeth-grating country pop he was playing last time I was here. When the frowning dumbass sticks his head into the hall to complain about the noise I stick the Colt in his face. "Play Taylor Swift one more time, motherfucker." He turtles his head back into his apartment and the music stops.

Innovation is the name of the game;

A buckled car protruded from the window of one of the upper classrooms.

sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud.

We are advancing into a post-professional society.

The Canadian science-fiction writer William Gibson could well have been speaking of technology in the professions when he said: '[t]he future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Technology will be the main driver of this change. And, in the long run, we will neither need nor want professionals to work in the way that they did in the twentieth century and before.

However, as Chapter 2 shows, there is a new generation of machine in action now, and these are systems (much more of which in Chapter 4) that can replace parts of, and sometimes all of, certain kinds of professional work.

Readers may call us radical, but if we can foresee a day when the average laptop has more processing power than all of humanity combined, then it might be time for professionals to revisit some of their current working practices.

Our main claim is that we are on the brink of a period of fundamental and irreversible change in the way that the expertise of these specialists is made available in society. Technology will be the main driver of this change.

there be different and better ways of producing knowledge and making it available in society, methods that might not directly involve the traditional professions at all?

Document automation can therefore be used within legal businesses or made available online, and is disruptive for lawyers who charge for their time, because it enables documents to be generated in minutes whereas, in the past, they would have taken many hours to craft.

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

Adrian's new research partner stepped through the door, and I knew the uneasy peace we'd just established in Palm Springs was about to shatter. Dimitri Belikov had arrived.

hypercompetition" to characterize markets in which a firm's competitive advantage would be quickly competed away.8

When competitive advantages don't last, or last for a much shorter time than they used to, the strategy playbook needs to change. Leaders

If you can't raise consciousness at least raise hell

Sawdust in the gear-boxes, the electric-drill on the speedometer cables.

It's fizzing the wrong way!

I am the only pest in this room!

This God disrupts the familiarity of the story by interrupting the sacrifice. Picture an early audience gasping. What? This God stopped the sacrifice? The gods don't do that! Second, the God in this story provides. Worship and sacrifice was about you giving to the gods. This story is about this God giving to Abraham. A God who does the giving? A God who does the providing?

How easy it is to upend your life. To restless, heedless me it was nothing.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.