“Companies were getting a lot tougher on labor contracts these days; Hack had heard stories. At Adidas, if you quit your job… — Max Barry 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
“Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.” — Max Barry Amusing 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
“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
Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look… — Max Barry Cheeseburger 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 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
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
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
Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text… — Max Barry Algorithms 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
“ '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
“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
“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
“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
“To succeed in sales, you need skills—not skills entirely consistent with moral integrity and emotional well-being, but skills nevertheless.” — Max Barry Moral integrity Copy Share Image
“He'd basically fallen in love with her on the spot. Well, no, that wasn't accurate; that implied a binary state, a shifting… — Max Barry Doomed Copy Share Image
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that… — Max Barry Brain Copy Share Image
“It was funny how as soon as you knew there was something better, what you had seemed unbearable.” — Max Barry Copy Share Image
The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll… — Max Barry Desire Copy Share Image
“It was pointless to ponder who I was because I was whichever combination of chemicals happened to be sloshing around at that… — Max Barry Time Copy Share Image
