Quotes About Disruption

Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

Automation is great for profits, but it's a real potential trouble area for society.

I'm a huge fan of the liberal arts approach of teaching you to think, analyze, and communicate, then sending you out into the world to cause trouble.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.

But if you work in the rock industry, you should realize that the most important bands are the troublemakers.

I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.

It's totally fun to play troublemakers - totally.

People often talk about the self-driving car and what will that do. In 32 states, the number one job is to be the driver. But remember, it's not just the driver. Let's think about the truck stops along the way. When you suddenly have a lot of other people who are dependent on those careers.

I remember, this one time, one of my best friends was living with us for a little while, this place we were renovating. We got back, we'd been cleared out. The place had been robbed. They must have backed up trucks to get the appliances. And our buddy was still sleeping.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, random bomb attacks.

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.

I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

Nature,' intoned Daint, 'always finds a balance. Why disrupt such a delicate situation?' 'I've seen horses run away when you look at them sidelong, Daint.