Disruptive Quotes · Page 2

And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence…

— Terence McKenna

Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in…

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Lynda Resnick

In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes…

— Hyman Minsky

I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot…

— Adam Clayton

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

— Ryan Holmes

It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive…

— Carl I. Hagen

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth…

— Janet Yellen

In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue…

— Clayton Christensen

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet…

— Eric Ries

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Drone manufacturers have yet to create a drone capable of delivering packages while operating at a decibel level that isn't disruptive to…

— Robin Hayes

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will…

— Clayton Christensen

Donald Trump's message to people is that he's a disruptive force that can descend into Washington as a nonpolitician and try to…

— Anthony Scaramucci

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

— Naveen Jain

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private…

— Caitlin Thomas

So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly…

— John B. S. Haldane

If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a…

— Hyman Minsky

What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into…

— Jeremy Rifkin

In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have already seen…

— Jeff Pulver

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

— Eric Schmidt

You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I…

— Garance Dore

We have [unfriendly policies] here in Europe, too. We have them here in Germany, too. And to take up where the president…

— Angela Merkel

For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning;…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

This country is facing an economy that has been radically transformed.And these changes have been disruptive. They have changed people's lives. The…

— Marco Rubio