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Quotes About Disruption

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
~ Alvin Toffler
What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage.
~ Miriam Margolyes
I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
~ Kate Beckinsale
If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.
~ Ryan Kavanaugh
If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.
~ Douglas Trumbull
The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.
~ Peter Thiel
Why aren't you on the pill?" "Hmm. Because I gave up men…." He chuckled, low in his throat. "How's that working out for you….?" "I was fine until you. You've messed up a lot of my plans." "You played hell on mine, too," he groaned, lifting her T-shirt over her head, tossing it and steering her toward the bed.
~ Robyn Carr
Lee saved my life that day. I thought she'd disrupted my plan, destroyed my future, but if I had gotten into that boat with Jesse, I'd be dead. I am only alive because of her.
~ Robyn Harding
The world tends toward chaos, you know," Cassidy said. "I'm just helping it along.
~ Robyn Schneider
It' so funny how small moments can ruin everything.
~ Robyn Schneider
It's funny how small moments can ruin everything.
~ Robyn Schneider
By breaking the rules of the game, he has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game.
~ Rod Dreher
The sickness of humanity is only added to, when people begin things that others are trying to stop
~ Rod Smith
La supuesta gran transformación que López Obrador equipara a las ocurridas con la Independencia, la Reforma y la Revolución es en realidad algo así como el parto de los montes, insignificante como cambio pero donde el estridente chillido del ratoncito provoca fuertes efectos desorganizadores.
~ Roger Bartra
The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality
~ Roger Caillois
The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.
~ Roger Goodell
The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.
~ Rollo May
He switched the gasper off quickly before it burned the toaster and the whole damn table. Too much power. Technology again. Technology was the asshole of science.
~ Romain Gary
For peasants and merchants, war was a nightmare that disrupted the routine of earning a livelihood Laying waste vast tracts of inhabited and cultivated land, merely because it was part of the enemy's territory, was a proud boast attributed to Prithviraja Chauhan on defeating the Chandella ruler.
~ Romila Thapar
Your goal should be to keep the temperature within what we call the productive zone of disequilibrium (PZD): enough heat generated by your intervention to gain attention, engagement, and forward motion, but not so much that the organization (or your part of it) explodes.
~ Ronald A. Heifetz
Perché trovarsi davanti a un pazzo sapete che significa? Trovarsi davanti a uno che vi scrolla dalle fondamenta tutto quanto avete costruito in voi, attorno a voi, la logica, la logica di tutte le vostre costruzioni! - Eh! Che volete? Costruiscono senza logica, beati loro, i pazzi! O con una loro logica che vola come una piuma!
~ Luigi Pirandello
trovarsi davanti a un pazzo sapete che significa? trovarsi davanti a uno che vi scrolla dalle fondamenta tutto quanto avete costruito in voi, attorno a voi, la logica, la logica di tutte le vostre costruzioni!
~ Luigi Pirandello
Our new ways are disruptive. They will look weird. This is good. Let us not care, but enjoy that glimpse in another's eyes that we will find sometimes—the one that says, "You're not crazy. I feel it, too.
~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt
As Mabel inserts herself between husband and wife, and then between poet and 'Sister', and as a fissure in the family cracks and then breaks open early in 1885
~ Lyndall Gordon