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.

Technology favors horrible people.

Technology favors horrible people.

Douglas Coupland

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Douglas Coupland

I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

Douglas Coupland

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

Douglas Coupland

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

Douglas Coupland

Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.

Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.

Douglas Coupland

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

Douglas Coupland

Every single moment is a coincidence.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

Douglas Coupland

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Douglas Coupland

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Douglas Coupland

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