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Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Canadian Author
Born: Dec 30, 1961
Because Life People Think Time You
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Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.' Douglas Coupland
Money Men Three Interstate Mad Mad Men More Piece Massively Than Artificial Infrastructure Note Season
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. Douglas Coupland
Culture Experience School High High School Shared North North American American American Culture
When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it. Douglas Coupland
Daily Me People Some People Air I Feel I Feel Like Some About Wing Ruthless Schedule Schedules Trout Feel Drowning Dock Like Look
Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else. Douglas Coupland
Technically Negative Living Else Vancouver Does Exist Square Anywhere Anywhere Else Root Imagine
God is what keeps us together after the love is gone. Douglas Coupland
Love God Together Love Is Gone After Us Keeps
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. Douglas Coupland
Think I See See Calculator Get Want Use Vintage
I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow. Douglas Coupland
You Three Else Guy Gym Week Days Go Snow Dies Want
Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness. Douglas Coupland
Feeling Indication Unique Uniqueness
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect. Douglas Coupland
Creative Become Setting Visible Recognition Plot Characters Through Writer Invisible Reader Ultimately Truths Where Pattern Places Storyteller Storytelling Dots Creates Act Creative Act Connect Series
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
Time History Experience Way Kind Silly Point Between Like Massively Shifted Decades Quite Where Forms Now
I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more. Douglas Coupland
Library Research Kick Everywhere Section More Week Miss Missions Go Reference Get Any Used Now Twice Twice A Week Elitist
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
Nature You Man Nothing Down Other Watershed Side Neighborhood Absolute Point Had Between Pole Until Fence Go Up Surrounds North North Pole Grew Siberia
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. Douglas Coupland
World Three Live Sets Machines Martini Could Without Things
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time. Douglas Coupland
Time Wealth About Economy Redistribution Modern
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.' Douglas Coupland
Future Three Think I Think Say Pepsi Point Clocks Get Just Anymore Right
I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable. Douglas Coupland
Me Society Enough Worship Somehow Sees Them Paid Teachers
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
Time Day You Old First Gone Back One Day Wires Like Wither Documents Said Got Go Get Going Just Which Fancy Little Meanwhile Laptops Electron Now Away Starting Need Cords
Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity. Douglas Coupland
Technology Humanity Alien Down Our Earth Ourselves Give Invented Only Never Come Us Down To Earth Therefore Expression
I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward. Douglas Coupland
Time Me Reward Alien Trapped Other State Earth Penance Some Unsure Like Felt Permanent Always Still Human Form Human Form
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs. Douglas Coupland
You People Intimate Inside Only Voice Laying Heads Like Because Doing Hear Eggs Your Moment Radio
I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. Douglas Coupland
People Wonderful Amazing Think Corner Otherwise I Think Out Would About Lead Advances Weirdly Dead Because Scientific Rocking Normal American Themselves Full Who Now Lives Millions Millions Of People
We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. Douglas Coupland
Shopping World Approaching Rapidly Entirely Jail
I've got 911 on speed dial. Douglas Coupland
Speed Got Dial
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities. Douglas Coupland
Time You Perception Others Types About Layer Between How Leave Very Any In-Between Much Your Sequence Many Gaps Activities
If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur. Douglas Coupland
God Time Money Will Politicians Interstate Collapse Determined Only Take Maintained Along Like Knows How Occur How Much Fixing Human Which Much Ages Bridge Even Damage
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal. Douglas Coupland
You Animal Trick Like Question Being Asked
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