Quotes About Disruption

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

And yet rapid change brings chaos as well as progress.

rooms a thousand times before. There was a raucous through-the-wall

They think know-nothings are good because they're not invested in the status quo. They think they bring fresh perspectives

if a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy.

the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy--and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all thy other queer noises, would change (she knew) to the confused clamour of the busy farm-yard--while the lowing of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock

Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over

certain element—a few crazies—that don't have anything to do. They shot out two streetlights on Goodwinter Boulevard last night. When I was a kid we smashed pumpkins and strung trees with toilet paper on Halloween, but this new generation does it all year round.

Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

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

The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.

There will be a huge, huge positive impact for society when driverless cars become a thing.

Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.

you can't make tragedies without social instability.

Every change is a menace to stability.

the inconvenience she represented.

Sometimes Stuart seems like an irritable fisherman. He bobs about, on the disruption of his life, a small, unsteady figure, fishing for order. Then he gets into a rage, 'goes right on one', and it is as if he's taken out the gutting knife and mashed his catch to a pulp - every sign of hated, repressive, reminding order is gone again.

Manfred's interventions, he thought, had all the characteristics of radio jamming, designed to stop anybody else talking.

Some ideas are dangerous.

I would rather you burned this book than used the reading of it as an excuse to not make some fresh trouble today

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.