Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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Emotional Ketchup Burst: The bottling up of opinions and emotions inside onself so that they explosively burst forth all at once, shocking and confusing employers and friends - most of whom thought things were fine.
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You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.
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'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.
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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
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What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?
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The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.
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In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free.
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Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
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For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.
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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
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I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
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If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?
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If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
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Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.
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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
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I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.
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'Grandpa, like most of the fun-loving gang who built the Plants, just wanted to die or have his brain turn to oatmeal before it becomes too apparent exactly what a nightmare he and his buddies have saddled their descendants with.'
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
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It can be really fun to go down with the ship.