Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to…

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology,…

— Lynda Resnick

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

— Jeff Bezos

Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally…

— William J. Mitchell

For an emerging market that hopes to be the third largest economy in the world, you cannot do it without being innovative and disruptive.…

— Ronnie Screwvala

Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that…

— Javier Perez de Cuellar

As I have often said, acceptance of the idea of shared mobility is going to be one of the major disruptive trends in the…

— Anand Mahindra

The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on…

— Clayton Christensen

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of…

— Tom Robbins

“Identifying disruptive footholds means connecting with specific jobs that people—your future customers—are trying to get done in their lives.”

— Clayton M. Christensen

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development…

— Jamais Cascio

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of…

— Howard Zinn

“disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one.”

— Clayton M. Christensen

What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

— Hans Zimmer

The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to…

— Oren Etzioni