Quotes About Disruption

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along?

We work in an industry where people invent technology to avoid what we create.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions.

VCs invest in innovation and disruption, but how often do they innovate themselves?

The best opportunity for return on investment is in the information revolution.

Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.

Well in terms of our companies, we are very involved in the innovation space. We are not afraid as an investor, we're not afraid of dilution, if we, if we think they're doing it for the right reason.

To be a good investor, you have to think differently from others.

Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

I think 2tor has a chance of remaking higher ed in a really great way. If we do that, those investors will do well.

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

I want to make the iPhone of movies.

Iran is not a nation-state; it's a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.

Old-style management is irrelevant.

In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.

As with any field, if something does not fit into the current understanding of how things work, it raises eyebrows, hackles or both.

What is the usual healing time for; . . . . . . . 'A fly in the ointment'?

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

In the olden days, big houses in New York impeded creativity—editing, printing, distributing a handful of volumes each year. If a writer somehow failed to catch the fancy of a New York publisher, she was consigned to irrelevance. Amazon disrupted the hell out of that arrangement. Anyone with a novel in a desk drawer could publish directly to Amazon.

That's where proper stories begin, don't they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

Smash the table, why don't you? Kick things about. It's ever so nice to see you embrace the true spirit of the Fraternitus.

Just as Clayton Christensen had predicted in The Innovator's Dilemma, technological innovation caused wrenching pain to the company and the broader industry