Quotes About Disruption

there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

The clash of Watson's and Hollerith's personalities was a classical example of a brash, energetic, visionary newcomer confronting a staid traditionalist.

My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe

It didn't look like a meeting of Boy Scout Troop #67, if you know what I mean. Yeesh, teenagers.

He knew he probably sounded like an idiot to the scholars, but sometimes an idiot's perspective ended up getting more things done.

You have the singular ability to turn up exactly where you are most unwanted." She

wheels caught and I was flung into ordinary

You've changed the metre,' said Philippa. 'I reserve the right,' said Lymond, 'to change the metre. Don't interrupt.

How old do you think he is?' said Sybilla placidly. 'To tell you the truth, I don't want him hanging about my petticoats for the rest of my life. He is, you must admit, a little disruptive in the home.

there's nothin' like Christian feelin's for upsettin' a man's domestic comfort.

Detective-story writers are obliged by their disagreeable profession to invent startling and unpleasant incidents and people, and are (I presume) at liberty to imagine what might happen if such incidents and people were to intrude upon the life of an innocent and well-ordered community;

When she said 'Come in!' the commonplace formula seemed to take on a startling significance. For good or evil, she had called in something explosive from the outside world to break up the ordered tranquillity of the place;

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

There were three of them, three police cars left askew across the road in a way that transcended mere parking. It sent out a massive signal to the world saying that the law was here now taking charge of things, and that anyone who just had normal, good and cheerful business to conduct in Lupton Road could just fuck off.

He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan, and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight—the locals wouldn't stand a chance.

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

One thing he further added has suddenly ceased to lead to another

There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence. The

drug is going to end warfare as we know it." "That's what Alfred Nobel said when he invented dynamite.

All these Ministers insist on coming in and having kittens all over the place.

breakthroughs occur only when one is able to view things in a completely different, new way.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.