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Quotes About Disruption

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.
~ Tony Scott
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.
~ Steve Ballmer
I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that.
~ Peter Diamandis
We continue to operate in a fast-changing environment driven by so much disruption, and in this context, we see significant opportunity and demand for Accenture's highly relevant and differentiated services.
~ Pierre Nanterme
While it can be challenging for women with disruptive, technology-based ideas to acquire significant funding, in my experience, once I was able to raise that funding, I was met with droves of people offering to help me fulfill my dreams.
~ Jennifer Hyman
You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.
~ Alexander Osterwalder
First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
~ Saul Alinsky
Lure with bait, strike with chaos
~ Sun Tzu
The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. He controls his soldiers by his authority, knits them together by good faith, and by rewards makes them serviceable. If faith decays, there will be disruption; if rewards are deficient, commands will not be respected.
~ Sun Tzu
Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste. It is the essence of art that it shatter accepted patterns, advance into unknown territory, challenge the existing order. Art is highly explosive. To be worth its salt it must have in that salt a fair sprinkling of gunpowder.
~ Susan Quinn
Apocalypse is now a long-running serial: not "Apocalypse Now" but "Apocalypse From Now On.
~ Susan Sontag
The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.
~ Susan Sontag
She's never know because now the store was infested with cheerleaders.
~ Susan Wiggs
THE PROCESS OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
~ Joseph Schumpeter
the perpetual disruptive nature of youth generally. "Desolation," yes, but also a child's sense of immediacy, the capacity to enter into the moment-by-moment flow of life as it unfolds, not trying to make narrative sense of one's situation, and not caring overmuch if the whole setup comes crashing down.
~ Joseph Tabbi
The monster always represents the disruption of categories, the destruction of boundaries
~ Joshua Halberstam
I first suspected something was amiss when I exited the coffee shop on Greenup Street and was knocked down by a herd of bison.
~ Joshua Palmatier
Vivimos rompiendo nuestro mundo a cada rato...
~ Juan Rulfo
Discovering a New Intelligence You never change things by fighting the existing reality. —To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. —BUCKMINSTER FULLER
~ Judith E. Glaser
Anytime our lives are disrupted by change, we turn to conversational rituals to "re-anchor" us to a safe place.
~ Judith E. Glaser
That is God's way. He upsets everything and loves to annoy the vain most of all.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
Burgerparticipatie was een ander woord voor de bemoeienis van mensen die geen idee hadden waar het over ging en veel gedoe veroorzaakten, om er uiteindelijk over te zeuren dat alles zo lang duurde.
~ Juli Zeh
Is there anything else I can do to see to your comfort, Miss Trent?" Perriwick inquired. "She's fine," Blake growled. "Clearly, she--" "Perriwick, isn't the west wing on fire?" Perriwick blinked, sniffed the air, and stared at his employer in dismay. "I do not understand sir.
~ Julia Quinn