Method

Primary sources only

A quote is published only with a primary source: the speaker's own post, essay or letter; the company's own results release or published call remarks; an official keynote or talk transcript; the published transcript of a podcast or interview; or an official government or institution page. News articles, quote sites, screenshots and social media reposts do not count. A line that circulates only in secondary sources is left out.

Verbatim, checked by machine

Before a quote is published the site fetches its source page and checks that the exact words are on it (ignoring only curly versus straight quote marks and spacing). Every Friday at 12:15 UTC every source is read again. Excerpts keep the speaker's words in order; a quote that stops before its sentence ends is shown with an ellipsis. Nothing is paraphrased inside quote marks.

Source types

Every quote is tagged with where the words were published: an essay, a blog post, a talk or keynote, a podcast, an interview, a letter (shareholder letters, memos), a filing (earnings releases and calls) or a press release. For talks and podcasts the quote also records the timestamp or section, so it can be found in the transcript.

New quotes, every week

Discovery is free and needs no keys. The site keeps a list of sources (65 so far, and growing): the people's own blogs and Substacks, podcast feeds that publish transcripts, and company newsrooms. Each week every source is read for new items, and the sites of newly added people are probed for a feed. Candidate quotes are pulled out by rule: first-person claims about AI and technology in a person's own writing, the turns of a known speaker in a transcript, and quoted words followed by “said” and a known name in a release. Each candidate's exact words must be on the page.

Candidates are not public. A language model (Gemini, no web access, at most two calls a week) picks the ones that stand out and publishes them with an Unverified badge; a person checks the attribution before the badge goes. Without a model key, candidates wait for a person. Growth is public at /api/growth.

History

Corrections are recorded with the old and new value and the date. A quote whose source no longer carries the words is flagged and kept while a person looks. Withdrawn quotes keep their record. Nothing is deleted.

People

Only public roles and public statements, with a link to an official profile. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons (matched through Wikidata by name and company, never by name alone) or from the company's own leadership page, each credited on the speaker's page with its license. Where there is no such photo, the speaker shows as initials. Nothing is copied from LinkedIn, X or image search.

Across Glyph

Keynote quotes link to the keynote on Keynotes; earnings quotes link to the company on Earnings. Company names and slugs follow the shared registry at companies.fru.dev.

Disclaimer

Verbatim quotes from primary sources only (the speaker's own essays and posts, talk and podcast transcripts, letters, company releases, official pages), each matched word for word by machine; new ones are found every Friday on the people's own feeds, and unverified ones are marked until a person checks them. Every quote is re-checked against its source weekly, and the list grows as new quotes go on the record. A quote is one moment, not the whole argument; read the source. Photos from Wikimedia Commons and official company pages, with credit. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners. Anonymous usage stats via Google Analytics. Use Suggest a correction on any quote.