Quotes About Disruption

Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.

The fact is that the future will not be a continuation of the past. It will be a series of discontinuities. And only by accepting these discontinuities and doing something about them will we stand any chance of success and survival in the twenty-first century.

A paixão é uma perturbação da tranquilidade da alma.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

We must become aware of the astonishing fact that as a species we are the victims of an instance of traumatic abuse in childhood. As human beings, we once had a symbiotic relationship with the world-girdling intelligence of the planet that was mediated through shamanic plant use. This relationship was disrupted and eventually lost by the progressive climatic drying of the Eurasian and African land masses.

We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.

Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.

As happens so often in history at the dying of one age and the birth of another, an era of phenomenal ugliness, strife, and chaos was about to unfold.

Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone.

Black Flag once showed up at Tower Records and totally disrupted Adam Ant during his big in-store appearance… they bombed the place with thousands of flyers saying BLACK FLAG KILLS ANTS ON CONTACT!

All it takes," said Crake, "is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.

I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.

It's like a fart in church.

We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

We're changing the world with technology.

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.