“ I've always been interested in the unintended side effects of technology. For instance, when the car was invented, who would have thought dogs would like sticking their heads out the window to enjoy t… Douglas Coupland
“ I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything. Douglas Coupland
“ I think computers ought to have a key called I'M DRUNK, and when you push it, it prevents you from sending email for twelve hours.I've got another one: a key called FUCK OFF. You press it every time y… Douglas Coupland
“ I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too… Douglas Coupland
“ I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as… Douglas Coupland
“ I once read that for every person currently alive on earth, there are nineteen dead people who have lived before us. That's not that much really. Our existence as a species on earth has been so short.… Douglas Coupland
“ I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. Douglas Coupland
“ I don't understand the human heart. Only pain makes it grow stronger. Only sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it. Douglas Coupland
“ I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience Douglas Coupland
“ I broke out into a sweat and the worlds of Rilke, the poet, entered my brain -- his notion that we are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allo… Douglas Coupland
“ Here's what I think: the five mostunattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change andjealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal. Douglas Coupland
“ Ethan and I drove around Silicon Valley today looking at various company parking lots to see whose workers are working on a Sunday. He says that's the surest way to tell which company to invest in. If… Douglas Coupland
“ Do you think that being quick to judge, and being quick to pre-emptively please your internal 400-level professor, means you ignore or dismiss things that might actually be interesting? Is it better t… Douglas Coupland
“ Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside… Douglas Coupland
“ Do you realize, Tyler,' says Anna-Louise, 'the entire time we were in the forest it rained steadily and not once did we approach a state of moistness? There was a storm and we didn't even know. Douglas Coupland
“ Could I ever be a Craig? No. A person must be born into Craigdom, with its multiple ski holidays, complex orthodontia, proper nutrition and casual, healthy view of recreational sex. My Douglas Coupland
“ And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surpr… Douglas Coupland
“ And for a while they were happy in their own manner; they had the animal confidence money affords. Douglas Coupland
