Top 281 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

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.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

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.