Ben Parr
Ben Parr

Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.

Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

Daryl Davis
Daryl Davis

A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left that, the white supremacy movements, because I have been the impetus for that.

David Novak
David Novak

Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.

Eli Yishai
Eli Yishai

A convert, if he converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn't convert through the Orthodox, he doesn't have the Jewish gene. As simple as that.

Eric Kandel
Eric Kandel

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Garry Wills
Garry Wills

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

George Farquhar
George Farquhar

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Grace Napolitano
Grace Napolitano

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.