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Max Barry ist ein australischer Schriftsteller.

✵ 18. März 1973
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Max Barry Berühmte Zitate

„Du weißt doch noch, die Leute beschweren sich immer beim Management, dass ihre Work-Life-Balance nicht mehr stimmt. Also, am nächsten Montag haben sie eine Personalversammlung zu diesem Thema angesetzt. Um acht Uhr früh.“

Max Barry buch Company

Company

„Warum wollen sie unbedingt, dass ich den Auftrag storniere?' Der Mann klingt auf einmal misstrauisch. 'Seid ihr überbucht?'
'Ich will Ihnen nur helfen. Wirklich, unsere Kurse sind grottenschlecht. Es ist immer die gleiche Teamwork-Botschaft, nur unter verschiedenen Namen verpackt.'
'Ich hab nichts mit Teamwork bestellt. >Leitung von C++-Programmierern im Rahmen terminsensibler Projekte< - das wollte ich.'
'Das ist der Teamwork-Kurs. Und alle anderen sind auch der Teamwork-Kurs!“

Max Barry buch Company

Company

„Ich hatte zwar einen Laptop, doch er brauchte ewig zum Hochfahren – über eine Minute. Demnach war ich gezwungen, mir ohne Informationen über die Umweltbedingungen Kleider auszusuchen. Der helle Wahnsinn.“

Max Barry buch Machine Man

Machine Man

„Verstehst du, im Grunde sind doch die Mitarbeiter das Problem. Du zahlst, wenn du sie einstellst, du zahlst, wenn du sie rausschmeißt, und dazwischen muss du sie auch noch bezahlen.“

Max Barry buch Company

Company

„Blind tastete ich auf dem Nachttisch herum, und meine Finger schoben sich zwischen Romane, die ich nicht mehr las, weil man einfach nicht zurück konnte, wenn man erst mal mit E-Books angefangen hatte.“

Max Barry buch Machine Man

Machine Man

Max Barry: Zitate auf Englisch

“And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.”

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Max Barry

Quelle: Lexicon

“I've given you a world without Government interference. There is now no advertising campaign, no intercompany deal, no promotion, no action you can't take. You want to pay kids to get the swoosh tattooed on their foreheads? Who's going to stop you? You want to make computers that need repair after three months? Who's going to stop you? You want to reward consumers who complain about your competitors in the media? You want to pay them for recruiting their little brothers and sisters to your brand of cigarettes? You want the NRA to help you eliminate your competition? Then do it. Just do it.”

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Max Barry buch Jennifer Government

Quelle: Jennifer Government (2003), Chapter 58

“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”

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Max Barry

Quelle: Lexicon

“every story written is
marks upon a page
The same marks,
repeated, only
differently arranged”

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Max Barry

Quelle: Lexicon

“There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.”

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Max Barry buch Company

Quelle: Company

“I just read them for fun."
"Dictionaries?"
"Yes."
"That doesn't sound like fun. That sounds awful."
"Awful used to mean 'full of awe.' The same meaning as awesome. I learned that from a dictionary."
He blinked.
"See?" She said. "Fun.”

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Max Barry

Quelle: Lexicon

“I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword.”

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Quelle: Lexicon

“I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two… But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.”

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Max Barry buch Machine Man

Quelle: Machine Man

“Everyone's broken, one way or another.”

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Quelle: Lexicon

“The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.”

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Quelle: Lexicon

“The easier your job, the more you got paid. John had suspected this for many years, but here was the proof: pulling down five hundred bucks an hour to sit in the afternoon sun on top of an L. A. office tower.”

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Max Barry buch Jennifer Government

Quelle: Jennifer Government (2003), Chapter 40, page 138

“I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas — for generics, for Christ's sake.”

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Max Barry buch Jennifer Government

Quelle: Jennifer Government (2003), Chapter 1, page 5

“When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.”

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Max Barry

Great Writing interview

“Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.”

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Max Barry buch Jennifer Government

Quelle: Jennifer Government (2003), Chapter 51, page 190

“By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually exclusive. So if we value freedom, there's only one conclusion. It's time to get rid of this leftover relic we call Government.”

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Max Barry buch Jennifer Government

Quelle: Jennifer Government (2003), Chapter 53, page 202

“John here," the other John said, "pioneered the concept of marketing by refusing to sell any products. It drives the market insane.”

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Max Barry buch Jennifer Government

Quelle: Jennifer Government (2003), Chapter 1, page 4

“I feel comfortably qualified to talk about anything, but that's a personal problem and I'm dealing with it.”

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Max Barry

Great Writing interview

“I think this is the first time I’ve altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it’s an occasion! Soon I’ll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it’s a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship.”

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August 24, 2005 weblog post http://www.maxbarry.com/2005/08/24/news.html#retro6

“Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but I'm Australian. We have it all: the weather, the beautiful cities, the brand of football that involves neither padding yourself up like Santa Claus nor standing in a line in front of goal and covering your testicles.”

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Great Writing interviewhttp://www.greatwriting.co.uk/content/view/1038/

“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 at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.”

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Max Barry

Great Writing interview

“Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text and it uses an algorithm to detect whether the author is male or female. Or, if you’re an author, you can tell whether you’re really nailing your opposite-sex characters. I mean, nailing their dialog.”

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August 8, 2005 weblog post http://www.maxbarry.com/2005/08/08/news.html#girlyman

“Apparently we’re now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don’t think anything of it.”

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October 16, 2005 weblog post http://www.maxbarry.com/2005/10/16/news.html#theywantyou

“Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as you and me. What's with that?”

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Max Barry buch Jennifer Government

Quelle: Jennifer Government (2003), Chapter 40, page 144

“When someone thinks, “I liked his last book, I’ll hope this new one is good” and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.”

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October 8, 2005 weblog post http://www.maxbarry.com/2005/10/08/news.html#firstreviews

“What’s not fair is that our society rewards selfishness. That’s not fair.”

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Max Barry buch Jennifer Government

Quelle: Jennifer Government (2003), Chapter 5, “Wal-Mart” (p. 18)

“Nobody gives a crap about ethics. That’s why people like me will always be successful.”

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Max Barry buch Company

Quelle: Company (2006), p. 335

“Senior Management may have been incompetent; it may have been corrupt; it was certainly full of assholes—but they were their incompetent, corrupt assholes.”

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Max Barry buch Company

Quelle: Company (2006), p. 294

“What if we could make the company better? If we could change things…make it a better place to work. I mean, there are so many things we could do.”

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Max Barry buch Company

Holly looks at him blankly. Freddy says, “Jones…you’re still new here People suggest ways to improve the company every day. Their ideas go into the suggestion box in the cafeteria—where the cafeteria was, I mean—and they’re never heard from again, except during all-staff meetings when Senior Management picks out the most useless one and announces a cross-functional team to look into it. A year or two later, when everyone’s forgotten about it, we get an e-mail announcing the implementation of something that bears no resemblance to the initial idea and usually has the opposite effect, and in the annual reports this is used as evidence that the company listens and reacts to its workers. That’s what happens when you try to make Zephyr a better place to work.”
Q4/2: November, pp. 208-209
Company (2006)

“The atmosphere of desperate, ignorant terror essential to healthy rumors seeps away, replaced by a silent, wary paranoia. People bunker down, jealously keeping what they know, which is nothing, to themselves.”

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Max Barry buch Company

Quelle: Company (2006), p. 174

“Ninety-five percent of all jobs suck. That’s why people get paid to do them.”

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Max Barry buch Company

Quelle: Company (2006), p. 112

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