Quotes About Disruption

We argue that approaching our professional practice from a perspective influenced by the Slow movement has the potential to disrupt the corporate ethos of speed.

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

it takes only the smallest of changes to shatter an epidemic's equilibrium.

a radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

think we get in trouble when this process of editing is disrupted—when we can't edit, or we don't know what to edit, or our environment doesn't let us edit.

If your dream is accepted by all, you don't have a big enough dream. Big dreams challenge the status quo.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

The nerds are running the world now.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

it is a grave error to imagine that the world is not preparing for the disrupted planet of the future. It's just that it's not preparing by taking mitigatory measures or by reducing emissions: instead, it is preparing for a new geopolitical struggle for dominance.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

change requires destruction, whether or not you value the destroyed.

I returned to Moscow from Italy to find everything in a foul state. My room at home full of guests, smoking, loud music, wine and brandy spilt on the table. Quite revolting.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

I continued going to school for a period of time until it became more difficult to hide it. The faculty decided that I was becoming disruptive to the schooling process and a bad example. It was determined that I would leave school. "I was not welcome there" was what I was told. My

Then, once again, my charming brothers ruined everything.

Bad things happen when you least expect them

And note then: you can killjoy not as a deliberate or intentional act; you might even be trying to participate in the joy of others. You can killjoy because you are not properly attuned to the requirements of a social system.

That moment, the music screeched to a halt. There was an ungodly collision of brass, reed, and percussion—trombones and piccolos skidded into cacophony, a tuba farted, and the hollow clang of a cymbal wavered out of the big top, over our heads and into oblivion.

Springwater grow so thick it gonna clot and the pleasing ladies cease. I figure, yup, you is bad powers.

Xerography is bringing a reign of terror into the world of publishing, because it means that every reader can become both author and publisher,