Quotes About Disruption

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

There's absolutely no bubble in technology.

At Telegram we enjoy the luxury of not having to care about income streams or advertising.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

Uber exists because of mobile telephones.

I'm not a good dog trainer for the same reasons I am not a Republican: I endorse all forms of social anarchy.

Conan stood paralyzed in the disruption of the faculties which demoralizes anyone who is confronted by an impossible negation of sanity.

Heresy," Hilaire Belloc reminds us, "is the dislocation of some complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein. We

weird ideas spark innovation because each helps companies do at least one of three things: (1) increase variance in available knowledge, (2) see old things in new ways, and (3) break from the past. These are the three basic organizing principles for innovative work

Hire newcomers that other people in your company will dislike." David

In other words, that American asshole rattled the Israeli health-care professionals so much that it undermined their ability to treat sick babies.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

The Innovator's Prescription,

In the Information Age and the age of the Internet, millions of people under the age of 30 are getting rich using their imaginations to create apps that change the world—from Facebook to Uber to Snapchat and others. Those with imaginations thrive while those without it are still looking for a job… a job that may soon be replaced by robots and technology.

breaking tradition always comes with a noise like mountains falling.

Disruption is usually the beginning of real improvement showing up

Exponential creativity demands abnormality. And requires us to deviate from ordinary company.

In the new world of business, the riskiest place you can be is trying to do the same things in the same way as you've always done them. Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.

Then the fit hit the Shan.