Quotes About Disruption

I think it's good in life just to shake it up once in a while.

I guess I kind of have been known as the guy that shakes up girl groups.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

The sharing economy is out of the bag - and it's not going to go back in.

Companies that are natively technology-focused I would trust more than a bank.

Whatever happens, if I don't make any plays that game, hopefully I can have an effect where I'm distracting two or three blockers, or I'm getting my hands up so I can bat down balls.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

The country has been shaken up by me. I am just being myself.

Chaos doesn't do, it undoes.

It's like having one red sock in a load of white laundry. One red sock, and nothing is ever white again.

Outside, the middle class was disappearing faster than the icecaps, xenophobes were winning elections or stocking up on assault rifles, warring tribes were butchering each other religiously, but inside, disruptive new technologies were rendering traditional politics obsolete.

my brain started misbehaving, and

The world may be on the brink of another pandemic. All countries will be affected. Widespread illness will occur. Medical supplies will be inadequate. Large numbers of deaths will occur. Economic and social disruption will be great.

Here's what happens when a guy blows up during your group therapy session that's supposed to make you feel better about people blowing up. The group therapy session is officially cancelled. You do not feel better.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Sometimes the proper intellectual argument is "FUCK YOU!

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

Original thinkers doubt the default.

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." Instead, creators ought to build a car and see if customers will drive it.

It is surprising how much disruption the structure of normal life can absorb and still keep functioning. But then again, considered mathematically, society has never been an assemblage of things so much as an assemblage of variables.

Speaking of poison, unlike processed food, which is bad to consume, art should be the polar opposite: it should be over-processed to the point of being dangerous. To be deemed subversive, and intriguing to the eye and intellect, it must induce some form and degree of disruption. In that perspective, art is always safe, despite of idiotic censorship, as long as you don't eat it."

Because I love making people mad. It is my favorite pastime.

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

It's good to aggravate people a little. It makes them pay attention.