01c. 1961 ADIt's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
02c. 1961 ADPeople are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
03c. 1961 ADI've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
04c. 1961 ADI know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
05c. 1961 ADI'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
06c. 1961 ADThe time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
07c. 1961 ADI think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
08c. 1961 ADIf cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
09c. 1961 ADYou pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
10c. 1961 ADIf human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
11c. 1961 ADRemember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
12c. 1961 ADHandmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
13c. 1961 ADWhatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
14c. 1961 ADI was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
15c. 1961 ADAliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
17c. 1961 ADIt feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
18c. 1961 ADEven when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
19c. 1961 ADWhen you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
20c. 1961 ADMy question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.'Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
21c. 1961 ADWorkshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
22c. 1961 ADCanadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
23c. 1961 ADIf God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
24c. 1961 ADA bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.Douglas Coupland / quote ↗
