Quotes About Disruption

I have tried imagining that the single peacock I see before me is the only one I have, but then one comes to join him, another flies off the roof, four or five crash out of the crepe-myrtle hedge; from the pond one screams and from the barn I hear the dairyman denouncing another that has got into the cow-feed. My kin are given to such phrases as, 'Let's face it.

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

Hyperloop One will move people and things faster than at any other time in the world.

I know many Canadians are fed up with the traditional way of doing politics.

One big learning from Thiel fellowship was think really big and create an impact, without thinking if anybody has done it before.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.

My particular rule of thumb is to allow disruptors to let their flags fly. If they want to stage a stunt, who cares?

I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.

Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

If one sees far, structural changes that come with temporary disruptions can be growth- and efficiency-augmenting in the medium to long term.

Tech companies tend to do tech best.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has an idea and has a solution can tap into or can leverage the Bitcoin blockchain.

Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.

Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.