Technology Disruption Quotes

In short, software is eating the world.

I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.'

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.

It's going to be fun watching this robot start malfunctioning.

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

When a technology, regardless of how different and difficult it is, sustains the trajectory of performance improvement, my research asserts that the leaders in the prior generation of technology are likely to end up on top of their industry at the end of the transition.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.

Stealing something from Apple is the most innovative way to be seen as an innovative, digital-first company.

Our team finds motivation in knowing that we're transforming the ticketing industry, this notion that we're bringing democratization to an industry and disrupting it using technology.

And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

We love serious technology innovations, and there is a strong bias towards large technology innovations that are sort of disruptive to the current market.

Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.

DS not only changes Nintendo, it changes our industry.

Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the Hopper. What we're saying to the broadcasters is, 'There's a way for you not to put your head in the sand.'