Disruptive Quotes - Page 2

• Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Opportunity, Normal, Disruption

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: : Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• A lot has been written about the Internet bust. From my point of view, it's quite clear the Internet isn't a category; the Internet is a technological infrastructure that can be deployed to facilitate a disruptive business model or a sustaining business model.

  Clayton Christensen

  Views, Internet, Categories

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment; but it can distract you from what is really important.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Self, Giving, Drug

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.

  Terence McKenna

  Taken, Mean, Vegetables

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

  Caitlin Thomas

  Body, Journalism, Turds

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• There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

  Jay Samit

  Riches, Found, Breakthrough

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• I want the definition of startup back. To be used by anybody who is willing to take the risk to quit their corporate job and go out and try and build an innovative, disruptive, tech-enabled business that tries to change the way things work in the world.

  Mark Suster

  Jobs, Risk, Trying

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• 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.

  Brian Balogh

  Want, Tradition, Trump

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We have [unfriendly policies] here in Europe, too. We have them here in Germany, too. And to take up where the president left off, digitization is in a way a disruptive force, a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change, transformation of a society.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, President, Germany

  Source: time.com

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

  Clayton Christensen

  Successful, Strategy, Ceo

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

  Naomi Wolf

  Democracy, Politics, Disruption

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• Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Struggle, Essence, Perfect

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

  Naveen Jain

  Philosophy, Opportunity, Thinking

  "An Entrepreneurial Perspective on Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2016.

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• The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.

  Clayton Christensen

  Innovation, Answers, Outsiders

  "The Off-White Papers" by Clayton M. Christensen, Rabbi Irwin Kula, Craig Hatkoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.

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• Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

  Eve Ensler

  Dance, Moving Forward, Space

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• A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.

  May Sarton

  Would Be, Routine, Body

  May Sarton (2014). “At Eighty-Two: A Journal”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of
  what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

  Marianne Williamson

  Religious, Giving, Religion

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

  Eric Ries

  Business, Character, Ideas

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• I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

  Paloma Faith

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.

  Maile Meloy

  Party, Thinking, Giving

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• The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

  Tim Wu

  Innovation, Antidote

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.96, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like the template for a future that we were actively building. I remember reading Sterling's Islands in the Net and suddenly understanding the disruptive potential of technology once it got out into the street. Cyberpunk felt urgent. It wasn't the future 15 minutes out - it was the future sideswiping you and leaving you in a full-body cast as it passed by.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Reading, Kids, Technology

  "How Cyberpunk Saved Sci-Fi" by Paolo Bacigalupi, www.wired.com. June 20, 2012.

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• The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

  Ken Auletta

  Media, Digital Revolution, Electricity

  "Ken Auletta: "Digital is almost as disruptive to traditional media as electricity was to the candle business"". Interview with Maite Fernandez, ijnet.org. December 14, 2011.

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• 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, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.

  Lynda Resnick

  Children, Technology, Apples

  "Five Reasons Americans Can Be Happy" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2009.

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• Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

  Clayton Christensen

  Jobs, Innovation, Efficiency

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