Quotes About Disruption

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.

The Internet won't skip a beat, and neither will I. Technology is constantly changing and evolving.

When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.

I describe Bitcoin as 'the Skype of money.'

While in two very different sectors, both Skype and TransferWise were born out of frustration.

You start a business being hungry, foolish, and a little bit naive. But more often than not, you end up being disrupted yourself. It happened to Skype.

When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

Look at trade and automation: two competing but slightly overlapping forces in the shrinking of the duration of jobs right now. We have to be able to talk honestly about how disrupted this world is going to be, and it is crazy to mislead people and say we're going to bring back all of the big factory jobs by creating a protectionist regime.

Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.

Smart CEOs should be thinking about AI and its impact on their respective business.

If you could make something one percent smarter than a human, your artificial attorney or accountant would be better than all the attorneys or accountants out there. You would be the richest person in the world. People are chasing that.

I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.

Michael Jordan broke the mold of the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird era - he came in and he had a gold chain, he wore longer shorts and his sneakers were a different style.

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

unless we do very, very disruptive actions, people do not want to talk to us.

Like what?" I said. "Like you have one official leader and one shadow leader," Helen said. "Charlotte will have to develop a strategy because Robert's Rules and a covenant won't contain that Jennie. She likes disruption

I guess I'm just stuck on the idea that there's this monumental machine, and we're all part of it. Most of the time, we don't even stop to think about how it works. We just go about our business, doing our part, trusting that everyone else will do their part, and the machine will keep functioning. But all it takes is for someone to come along who isn't thinking straight, some who's not paying attention, or worse, hell-bent on self-destruction and everything turns to shit.

trabajos de intermediario, haciendo inventarios y recuentos. Esto significa que los representantes, corredores, dependientes, contables, etcétera, serán despedidos gradualmente a medida que sus puestos de trabajo vayan desapareciendo. Estos empleos se encuadran en lo que se llama «la fricción del capitalismo». Ahora mismo ya es posible comprar un billete de avión buscando en la web los mejores precios, prescindiendo del agente de viajes.

The essence of humor is when our simulation of the future is suddenly disrupted in surprising ways.

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her.

Hay ideas que son como un atentado.

It seems that there is never to be any perfect rest. Even in Eden the snake rears its head among the laden boughs of the Tree of Knowledge. The silence of the dreamless night is broken by the roar of the avalanche; the hissing of sudden floods; the clanging of the engine bell marking its sweep through a sleeping American town; the clanking of distant paddles over the sea....