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Quotes About Disruption

We saw a big bang in PCs; we saw a big bang in the Internet. I believe the next big bang is going to be even bigger. To be ready for that, we need to set the foundation, and that foundation is SoftBank Vision Fund.
~ Masayoshi Son
If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.
~ Neil Gershenfeld
Cuando una niña consigue perturbar a un señor de mediana edad, todo se vuelve muy complicado.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The expectations which history creates for one generation are often shattered in the next generation.
~ Frank Herbert
I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills Just before dawn An' knock the little jockeys Off the rich people's lawn An' before they get up I'll be gone, I'll be gone Before they get up I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn
~ Frank Zappa
Personally, until Mike Trout came into the league I thought I would be in the conversation for best player in the game. Then he screwed that up for everybody - Babe Ruth and Ted Williams included. He has ruined it for everyone.
~ Joey Votto
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
~ Jeff Bezos
As a venture capitalist, I invest in people and ideas that are fresh, vibrant, and willing to disrupt the market. As a political donor, I like to see the same energy in the people I support.
~ Alan Patricof
Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.
~ Brian Chesky
You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.
~ Sebastian Thrun
What to do with a leading business that's challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple's willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product's features into a new gizmo, the iPhone.
~ Adam Lashinsky
The fact that Russia has shown a willingness to disrupt elections and undermine institutions should come as no surprise. Just ask our allies across Europe, particularly in places like Georgia and Ukraine.
~ Mike Quigley
No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.
~ Bart Stupak
Nobody knew they needed a smart phone, an automobile, or even a cheeseburger from a drive through window.
~ Michael Gerber
If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.
~ Douglas Booth
Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.
~ Robert Downey Sr.
The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
~ William Cowper
Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.
~ Ben Parr
Wherever you disrupt water from its natural cycle, there's always a winner and a loser. Whoever is the one it's directed towards is the winner, and whoever loses that water is the loser.
~ Edward Burtynsky
The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned.
~ Karl Iagnemma
New tech explosions create winners and losers, but overall are remarkably positive for the country, middle-class folks, the economy, jobs, and wages.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipulation than, say, China or the countries of the Middle East.
~ Jamais Cascio
If Trump wins, I think the whole thing is going to blow up, and we're going to start over, and that's always a good thing to do.
~ Bob Weir
Ted Cruz cut his teeth politically in Texas on disrupting the Republican establishment, and Texans love a fighter. It's the same thing that has made me successful is that when people look at me, they see a fighter, somebody who takes on the establishment, who isn't intimidated, and is willing to kick through doors.
~ MJ Hegar