Quotes About Disruptive

We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. Most of what it has to offer is discomforting, even disruptive—which is why it is not always politically prudent to wield the past as a moral cudgel with which to beat and berate a people for its past sins.

My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.

I tell you, monsieur, it's the end of the world. The students' behaviour has never been so outrageous. It's all these damnable modern inventions that are the ruin of everything.

You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.

Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable.

I feel like I want to make anime that destroys the norms, something that would be strong, even if it is unconventional.

Has a confrontational ring to it, doesn't it? Like saying, the sky is rubber, or, your foot's a hippopotamus.

As a kid, I was hyperactive and the naughty one in school. I wouldn't listen to anyone and thought I knew best. At home, I was always breaking things and annoying everyone.

They declare that it is unpatriotic and disruptive to question the workings of authority--but patriotic to institute harsh and regressive policies that benefit the wealthy, undermine social programs that serve the needs of the great majority, and subordinate a frightened population to increased state control.

They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation. By approaching a disruptive business with the mindset that they can't know where the market is, managers would identify what critical information about new markets is most necessary and in what sequence that information is needed.

Figure I.1 The Impact of Sustaining and Disruptive Technological Change

he was more of a poltergeist than a lodger

You stand out like a fart in a church.

PayPal was disruptive, it was democratizing, and it had universal appeal. It gave power to millions and millions of individuals and reduced monopolist control from nations, banks, and other huge corporations.

Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.

I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

But this felt hideously intrusive, totally out of line.

Stroll around and look sexy, ask annoying questions, in general get on everyone's nerves. All those things that come naturally to you.

At their best, new media are chaotic. The new technologies disrupt political pomp and glamour and engage people in an unpolished and unpredictable give-and-take. They also give citizens access to a surprising depth of raw information.

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

Pretty sure I always say things that upset people, get under people's skin.