Quotes About Disruption

The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians.

Community and anarchy. Politics pulls things together; technology blows them apart.

All workable standards of wealth had vaporized, digitized, and vanished into a nonstop hurricane of electronic thin air.

To innovate is not to reform.

obstreperously.

Dear me, what an unsatisfactory world it was! When one did find a nice kind of life something or somebody always seemed to shove you out of it just as you were beginning to enjoy it.

Pollution, corruption, economic problems—there would be enough reason to fear for developing countries even if the coming tech disruption weren't expected.

In 2018, it's still too soon to know whether the tech revolution will kill more jobs than it creates.

In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.

I see. Is Jim with you now?" "Yes, he is. We're having rough sex. You're interrupting. "What are you doing here?" "Looking for Jim in your bed." "He isn't here." "I see that.

Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.

We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart? Or are we going think, like, listen - these people are here. We've got to deal with this reality. We've got to extend the franchise.

NestAway is a disruptive product creating a win-win opportunity, not just for direct stakeholders like owners and tenants but for the society at large by making cities safer, especially for young women.

If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.

People told me I was nuts when I went to sign an act from YouTube - and now, that's one of the most conventional things you can do as an agent or manager.

I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.

P of what al Qaeda tries to do, and terrorists, is disrupt. Americans should live their lives just as they have every day, but just be aware.

If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.