“The risk for the technology industry is that we are now the incumbents: we have a stake in keeping things exactly as they are, and we build products for ourselves — we’re our own best customers. That, though, cedes the future to the powerless — those with nothing to lose under the current system wil…”— Ben Thompson, stratechery.com
“The emergence of alternative distribution systems could have motivated innovation as easily as it induced paralysis; the industry could have used it as an opportunity to develop better, higher resolution recordings that can't easily be shared, or to build more accessible downloading interfaces, as A…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“The world of business really separates into two groups. Entrepreneurs who are disrupting the status quo are attackers. Large organizations are defenders.”— Steve Case, nytimes.com
“Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.”— Satya Nadella, nytimes.com
“Hallmarks of disruptive innovators: introduced by an 'outsider,' / less expensive than existing products/ targeting underserved or new markets/ initially inferior to existing products/ advanced by an enabling technology.”— The New York Times, nytimes.com