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If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.

The way I look at the world is establishment versus change agents. The establishment is those people who want to keep things the way they are. Change agents are people like me.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.

Every time you see a new paradigm emerge, it's always new vendors that lead it. I can't think of one case where an incumbent led a paradigm shift.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.