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Quotes About Disruption

What's awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to keep paying them.
~ Sarah Lacy
I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.
~ Steve Jurvetson
As we think about the future, one of the things we will do is to make sure PayPal becomes the central part of consumers' lives, how we enable consumers to manage and move their money more efficiently, easily, and less expensively than some traditional ways.
~ Dan Schulman
Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.
~ Peter Diamandis
There are many people who think we had the first-mover advantage. But actually, when Uber came to India, Ola was doing only 2,000 rides per day . We had less than half a million dollars of funding.
~ Bhavish Aggarwal
Travis Kalanick was and is the perfect person to lead Uber, a product I knew from day one was going to be big.
~ Chris Sacca
There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.
~ Hasso Plattner
I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
~ David O. Selznick
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
~ Plato
Hyang Mahadewa tahu bagaimana membikin Jagad Pramudita seimbang. Kerusuhan mengimbangi kedunguan.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Strike or Bandh is the biggest form of hooliganism stealthily orchestrated and sponsored by politicians to bedevil the population.
~ Probaerb
Create whatever raises agitation in your mind.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
Major crises impose sweeping changes.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.
~ Proverb
These Anti-Establishment Auteurs were as sorry to see the old studio system go busy as the French Revolutionaries were to see Marie Antoinette vacate Versailles
~ Quentin Tarantino
52% of the Fortune 500 have been merged, acquired, bankrupted, or fallen off of the list since 2000." (2013)
~ R "Ray" Wang
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
~ Stendhal
Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.
~ Burt Rutan
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.
~ Laurent Fabius
The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse.
~ Jeff Greene
I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.
~ Bong Joon-ho
Well 'Monday Night Football,' I think the players kind of like it because they like the attention, and it's a lot of attention. But on the other hand, it's a disruption of the routine we used to have to play on Monday night. If you're a player, you sit around all day waiting for a game. It's different than when you play at noon.
~ Bud Grant
Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop.
~ Virginia Postrel
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
~ Tom Robbins