Quotes About Disruption

in the face of climatic change, even natural climatic change, human activity has created an obstacle course for the dispersal of biodiversity

it revealed how people process disruptive information. Their first impulse is to force it into a familiar framework:

having freed ourselves from the constraints of evolution, humans nevertheless remain dependent on the earth's biological and geochemical systems. By disrupting these systems—cutting down tropical rainforests, altering the composition of the atmosphere, acidifying the oceans—we're putting our own survival in danger.

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.

The problem with this war is not the war itself, it is the mayhem it brings.

No hay manera de acercar nuestra vida a la de nadie sin que ambas vidas resulten perturbadas.

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

The biggest challenge for a leader is harnessing the rapid pace of change in technology, as that is going to impact every industry and every organization.

Given the scale of the ecological crisis we are facing this is the appropriate scale of expansion. Occupying the streets to bring about change as our ancestors have done before us. Only this kind of large-scale economic disruption can rapidly bring the government to the table to discuss our demands. We are prepared to risk it all for our futures.

People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.

History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.

Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking.

Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

I like to rattle cages.

Setting up our own label allows us to rip up the rulebook and find new ways of reaching an audience.

The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.

I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking.

Airbnb is creating a new marketplace for space and is facing many of the challenges that eBay faced back in 1998 when they created a new marketplace for goods.

The next Google is more likely going to come from outside the U.S. Whether it's in Europe, I am not sure. A lot of things have to change.

I was ringside for Amazon and Google.