Top 281 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

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.'

My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

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

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

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.

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.