Disrupting Norms Quotes

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

We not only went after some sacred cows, we went after the whole herd.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.

Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.

Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let's do that for Series A terms.

Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.

I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can get in touch with that grain rather than simply feel its flow. And he really can't cut right across it anyway.