Quotes About Disruption

Xerography is electricity invading the world of typography, and it means a total revolution in this old sphere.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

The economy is an organic whole, not just a collection of individual parts. If there is a big disruption in one industry, it will inevitably spill over into others

His rough tongue is a sign of a president who is dismantling the traditional presidency.

New tech almost always looks dumb right before it completely changes your life.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.

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

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

For those who still believe our age's disruptions match what happened after 1870, ask yourself which you would first give up, your iPhone or the flush toilet? Laptop or antibiotics? If you have trouble answering those, ponder life without electricity. It is a measure of our solipsism that we take for granted what went before.

We see that, sometimes, as a result of these dislocations, as a result of people leaving their original intended career and going into something else where their creativity could make a difference, that depressions and all kinds of other unfortunate events can have a paradoxically stimulating effect on creativity.

On New Year's Eve 1777, after performing in a play entitled The Devil to Pay in the West Indies, a party of drunken officers—one dressed up like Old Nick himself, complete with horns and tail—disrupted services at the John Street Methodist Church. Nor was that the worst of it. "I could narrate many and very frightful occurrences of theft, fraud, robbery, and murder by the English soldiers which their love of drink excited," said one dismayed German officer.

* Before, one builds anything; indeed, first, one has to break something. * Before building anything, such evolution starts breaking something first; consequently, one considers it as a maker; one else feels it as a breaker. Both opinions stand as qualified according to the context of its concept.

She was like that, she threw things off balance just to see if she could put them back in some other way.

Lei era così, rompeva equilibri solo per vedere in quali altri modi poteva ricomporli.

There are moments when what exists on the edges of our lives, and which, it seems, will be in the background forever—an empire, a political party, a faith, a monument, but also simply the people who are part of our daily existence—collapses in an utterly unexpected way, and right when countless other things are pressing upon us.

está acontecendo algo de grandioso, que vai dissolver completamente o velho modo de viver, e eu sou parte dessa dissolução.

Il terremoto- il terremoto del 23 novembre del 1980 con quel suo frantumare infinito- ci entrò dentro le ossa. Cacciò via la consuetudine della stabilità e della solidità, la certezza che ogni attimo sarebbe stato identico a quello seguente, la familiarità dei suoni e dei gesti, la loro sicura riconoscibilità

Ernest's mistake is to succeed by prudently respecting the rules of an old, well-known game; Gertrude's virtue is to succeed by sticking to the old, well-known game but in order to disrupt it and bend it to her purposes.

Sebbene Nino non mi desse corda, il solo intravederlo mi teneva la testa per aria durante le lezioni. La sua presenza qualche aula più' in la', vero, vivo, colto più' dei professori e coraggioso e disobbediente, svuotava di senso i discorsi dei miei insegnanti, le righe dei libri, i progetti di matrimonio, la pompa di benzina lungo lo stradone