Clayton Christensen Quotes

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.

This is the age of disruption.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.

Most legacy companies get crushed - they get Blockbustered - because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is.

Technology, through automation and artificial intelligence, is definitely one of the most disruptive sources.

Industries that are chaotic are ripe for innovation. They are open to anyone who has an idea.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.

From the early days, Booking.com has been disruptive. Our aim is to create the best product for our customers, and we do that through constant innovation and testing.

There really is a hunger and a demand for something different in higher education.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

If your idea is truly innovative, you're going to hear from the naysayers. After all, if it really were such a good idea, someone would have already done it, right?

An experimental idea doesn't have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are together. That's where you can get real change.

I just want to innovate.

Innovation is doing something in a different way, but it also has a subtext: When there's an established way, and that way is considered the best practice and how it's traditionally been done, innovation comes by and says 'Let's try a different approach.' It doesn't need to be big or company-wide - it could be a single thing.

I expect there will be more schools of any kind that haven't even been invented yet.

I don't think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no.

With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

The first 90 percent of a revolution is creating the product or service; the second 90 percent is evangelizing it. At the beginning of a revolution, you need evangelists, not sales, because leverage spreads news.

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