Ken Robinson Quotes

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

This is the age of disruption.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.