Quotes About Disruption

Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

Technology will have moved on to an unimaginable level in ten years.

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

Technology is the gene uncorked.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.

I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's Technology

Technology is not neutral.

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

My expectation is that technology always changes.

I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.