“To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.” — Max Barry People Copy Share Image
When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently… — Max Barry Book Copy Share Image
“Companies claimed to be highly responsive, Jennifer thought, but you only had to chase a screaming man through their offices to realize… — Max Barry Wasn True Copy Share Image
“It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You… — Max Barry Fiction Copy Share Image
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did. — Max Barry Justify Copy Share Image
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. — Max Barry Communicate Copy Share Image
What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a… — Max Barry Body Copy Share Image
“It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have… — Max Barry Architecture Copy Share Image
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. — Max Barry Census Copy Share Image
Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat… — Max Barry Ads Copy Share Image
“[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was… — Max Barry Killing Copy Share Image
“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a… — Max Barry Book Copy Share Image
“Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the… — Max Barry Business Copy Share Image
“ 'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way… — Max Barry Compromise Copy Share Image
“I met a librian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she wanats… — Max Barry Books Copy Share Image
Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks… — Max Barry Accent Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so… — Max Barry Customer Copy Share Image
Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but… — Max Barry Australian Copy Share Image
“She decided to sleep with him and get it over with. It was the only way. He had become an annoying jingle,… — Max Barry Falling asleep Copy Share Image
“Of course, human tissue completely It's unlikely that scar was composed of the same molecules. Do you think it is really appropriate… — Max Barry Scar Copy Share Image
“ Your site isn't static. It's dynamically generated. Do you know what that means ?" "No." "It means the site looks different… — Max Barry Core beliefs Copy Share Image
“Attention words. A single word wasn't enough. Not even for a particular segment. The brain had defenses, filters evolved over millions of… — Max Barry Attention Copy Share Image
“Of course the Curies died. They identified ionizing radiation while bathing in it. There were risks involved in being your own guinea… — Max Barry Greater good Copy Share Image
“You come to work every day but you hardly get to know anyone. I don't even know the names of half the… — Max Barry Big family Copy Share Image
“This all seemed quaint and amusing, but as the book moved through to the modern day, nothing changed. People still fell to… — Max Barry Books Copy Share Image
“Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.” — Max Barry Amusing Copy Share Image
“To succeed in sales, you need skills—not skills entirely consistent with moral integrity and emotional well-being, but skills nevertheless.” — Max Barry Customer Copy Share Image
every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged — Max Barry Mark Copy Share Image
“Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a… — Max Barry Escape Copy Share Image
“I must be the latest in a long line of freshly dismembered men to fall under the spell of Lola Shanks.” — Max Barry Copy Share Image
By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom… — Max Barry Action Copy Share Image
“Australians were very practical, Emily had found. They did things quickly and purposefully and to the absolute minimum standard required. It was… — Max Barry Australia Copy Share Image
“Companies were getting a lot tougher on labor contracts these days; Hack had heard stories. At Adidas, if you quit your job… — Max Barry Sued Copy Share Image
I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the… — Max Barry And love Copy Share Image
“What was it Like?" "What was what like?" he said, although he knew. "Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something.… — Max Barry Dry-humor Copy Share Image
“ 'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?'… — Max Barry Humorous Copy Share Image