Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Fate is for losers.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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Decade Blending: In clothing: the indiscriminate combination of two or more items from various decades to create a personal mood: Sheila = Mary Quant earrings (1960s) + cork wedgie platform shoes (1970s) + black leather jacket (1950s and 1980s).
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You're smarter than TV. So what?
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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
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Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
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People will always choose more money over more sex.
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If you’re an incredibly famous rich person who does more in one day than I do in a month, does your perception of time’s passing go slower or faster than it does for me?
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I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.
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Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.
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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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Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.
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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
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What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?
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I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
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I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.
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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.