Michael Arrington Quotes

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

To innovate is not to reform.

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.

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

Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change....These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.

Every new theory encounters opposition and rejection at first. The adherents of the old, accepted doctrine object to the new theory, refuse it recognition, and declare it to be mistaken. Years, even decades, must pass before it succeeds in supplanting the old one. A new generation must grow up before its victory is decisive.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.

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.

I believe in being an innovator.

Changes do occur often with such suddenness in ways not foreseen except by isolated thinkers far removed from the consensus of their day.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

Remember: you cannot build a better mouse trap by fixing the old one - NewCo demands active ownership, and that activity is not the sum of doing multiple jobs but, instead, the sum of implementing paradigm-shifting changes that create new industries and solutions.