Quotes About Disruption

maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean out of my ordinary life.

you wanna cause a scene?

To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed.

Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.

All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

I thought I was happy. I thought my life was fine. And then you came along, and nothing . . . nothing makes sense anymore.

To ignore those who stand out as harbingers in favor of those cleave to the status quo is to refuse engagement with the future if not to misunderstand the nature of youth itself

It's not actually the startups that are disrupting your organization, it's your customers' expectations

America's phones are bliss. Their habit of actually working is very disconcerting: Put in a coin, and speak to whoever answers. I truly hope it catches on everywhere.

Some people never want to be part of the solution. All they want to do is bitch and whine and create complications for other people. You

It's amazing how much trouble two selfish outlaws can cause.

I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.

You have to break an omelette to make eggs.

Intuitively, many people imagine that humankind's upward climb in economic sophistication was a slow, steady journey, a linear progression from stone tools to DVD players. The actual story, pieced together by archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and economists, is not at all like that. It is far more dramatic.

In a complex system such as our world today, this is all it might take for the overall system to become destabilized, leading to a collapse.

Just as personal digital technologies have caused economic, social and scientific revolutions unimagined when we had our first few computers, we must expect and prepare for similar changes as we move forward from our first few genomes. —George Church1

When memory is disrupted, these essential mental faculties suffer. Thus, memory is the glue that holds our mental life together. Without its unifying force, our consciousness would be broken into as many fragments as there are seconds in the day.

Startup, I have always been a bit of a troublemaker at the companies at which I have worked, pushing for rapid iteration, data-driven decision making, and early customer involvement.

We do everything wrong: instead of spending years perfecting our technology, we build a minimum viable product, an early product that is terrible, full of bugs and crash-your-computer-yes-really stability problems. Then we ship it to customers way before it's ready. And we charge money for it. After securing initial customers, we change the product constantly—much too fast by traditional standards—shipping new versions of our product dozens of times every single day.

We do everything wrong: instead of spending years perfecting our technology, we build a minimum viable product, an early product that is terrible, full of bugs and crash-your-computer-yes-really stability problems. Then we ship it to customers way before it's ready.

They are fast. They embrace new thinking. They are geared for disruption and innovation through uncertainty.

do any of us feel that the world around us is getting more and more stable every day?