Quotes About Disruption

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Two hours later, a noise resembling a hippo rolling along a corrugated iron roof shook Jane from her doze and Rob bursts through the living room door.

In 1996, Eastman Kodak was a hundred-year-old powerhouse with one hundred forty thousand employees and a valuation of twenty-eight billion dollars. Yet a mere sixteen years later, the company was filing for bankruptcy, a T. Rex dinosaur that had failed to fathom the disruptive power and game-changing impact of the digital photography revolution.

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In 1996, Eastman Kodak was a hundred-year-old powerhouse with one hundred forty thousand employees and a valuation of twenty-eight billion dollars. Yet a mere sixteen years later, the company was filing for bankruptcy, a T. Rex dinosaur that had failed to fathom the disruptive power and game-changing impact of the digital photography revolution. In

Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near, have ruined me. As

The progress of your technology has been exponential. And the exponent itself has been growing.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.

The sun had risen as usual, but nothing else about the day was the same as the day before.

Respect the teachers? That's the nonsense of 'teachers' dignity.' You two are typical 'teachers' obedient little lambs,' do you know that?" Du Hai recited more phrases from the newspaper. The world had turned upside down. Now it was a crime for students to respect teachers. I couldn't keep calm.

Stop derailing my plans with logic and reason,

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

The message to the stranger is clear: come right in and disturb our perfect lives. You are the Christ for us today.

Precisely because substitutes are not direct rivals, they often come from unexpected places. This makes substitutes difficult to anticipate or even to see once they appear. The threat of substitution is especially tricky when it comes at one remove.