Quotes About Disruption

I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that, in a lab, people are on a level playing field.

I'm terrified of routine.

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.

There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.

Terrorists destroy randomly.

Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.

Did Google know much about media? Or Amazon about commerce? Tesla about cars? SpaceX about rockets? EBay about classifieds? What did I know about computing when I started Sun Microsystems? We should celebrate these entrepreneurs, not pillory them for fighting entrenched incumbent industries that have political influence and money.

What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that's a testament to what it means to really break the mold and push the limits.

From the early days, Booking.com has been disruptive. Our aim is to create the best product for our customers, and we do that through constant innovation and testing.

The more challenging question is the moral one: If a child is seriously disruptive, whose interests should we prioritize? The one who needs extra attention and resources to succeed? Or his classmates, whose class time is reduced by his issues and outbursts? It is difficult to overstate how common this dilemma is in schools serving almost entirely low-income children—and how rarely it goes unresolved in schools where affluent Americans send their children.

The more challenging question is the moral one: If a child is seriously disruptive, whose interests should we prioritize? The one who needs extra attention and resources to succeed?

Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

The aim of intelligence is to put the whole goddamned human race out of work.

While someday the computerization of medicine will surely be that long-awaited "disruptive innovation," today it's often just plain disruptive: of the doctor-patient relationship, of clinicians' professional interactions and work flow, and of the way we measure and try to improve things. I

If you do a single thing—and especially if there is a lot of money in that single thing—you should put a 'Welcome, Robots!' doormat outside your office," wrote technology expert Farhad Manjoo in Slate. "They're coming for you.

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.

A small pebble can turn a wheel out of its path, he told me, but warned me that it was seldom a pleasant experience for the pebble.

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living among the shattered pieces.

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

I am something incorrect: a hair in the cottage cheese. Something uncouth: a fart in the elevator.

Peaceful change is the healthiest change, but if you will look closely you will see what the so-called revolutionary who deals in violence wants is simply violence. He is unhappy with himself, believes himself incapable of coping with the situation as it is, so tries to disrupt it. He wants violence to relieve his own anger and pent-up hatred.