Quotes About Disruption

I think that size is not the key to innovation. Scale doesn't confirm an innovation advantage.

I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you're creating something when you're kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I've always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever.

I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

She wanted to do something bad. She wanted to do something terrible that would shock her whole family, something that would make them sit up and take notice.

even a modest dilution of the ocean's salt content—from increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet, for instance—could disrupt the cycle disastrously. The

It was one of the things you put up with: that every Saturday young males trashed your trains, broke the windows of your pubs, destroyed your cars, wreaked havoc on your town centres. I didn't buy it, but it seemed to be so.

The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.

Different rules apply to those who shake the worlds.

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

Thus men who are naturally conscious of what they are shun nothing, so much as rest; they would do anything to be disturbed.

Writers used to be treated (except for the few brand name authors) as the bottom rung of the food chain.  We were interchangeable parts.  We're not any more.  All those people between us and our readers (agents, editors, publishers, book reps, bookstores) are the ones whose jobs are in danger.

Populism was a grassroots movement to disrupt the political status quo in favor of everyday people.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

Or maybe I was just a girl, interrupted

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

Don't puke on my scene, ninja boy.

Hamid Dabashi, Iran: A People Interrupted

It seemed that across some thirty paces of mosaic, candle wax and human forms, Leopardo had singled him out. The observation was not actually a threat, more a calculation. Romulan, sensing himself weighed, would neither glance away nor move. At risk of dislocation of the neck, he gave Leopardo back watch for watch. The tableau was ended suddenly by a blast of tenor trumpets from the head of the banner-draped stairway.

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

Mon but dans la vie est d'être une menace pour le plus grand nombre possible de gens

Sólo la verdad es revolucionaria

There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that our streets will again be quiet, but I know perfectly well that when that day comes some new device for torturing the old will be invented.

It's never the changes we want that change everything.