Top 281 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

About Douglas Coupland

These are some quotes by Canadian author Douglas Coupland Author, who was born on December 30, 1961.

I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.

I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.

Douglas Coupland

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Douglas Coupland

I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.

Douglas Coupland

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

Douglas Coupland

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

Douglas Coupland

Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows.

Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows.

Douglas Coupland

The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

Douglas Coupland

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Douglas Coupland

With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons.

With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons.

Douglas Coupland

The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

Douglas Coupland

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