People Quotes by Douglas Coupland

Technology favors horrible people.

— Douglas Coupland

My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.

— Douglas Coupland

Most people can't handle a structureless life.

— Douglas Coupland

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

— Douglas Coupland

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

— Douglas Coupland

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

— Douglas Coupland

People will always choose more money over more sex

— Douglas Coupland

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

— Douglas Coupland

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and…

— Douglas Coupland

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive…

— Douglas Coupland

Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

— Douglas Coupland

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

— Douglas Coupland

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

— Douglas Coupland

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

— Douglas Coupland

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

— Douglas Coupland

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

— Douglas Coupland

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be…

— Douglas Coupland

For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that…

— Douglas Coupland

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd…

— Douglas Coupland

Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people…

— Douglas Coupland

When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some…

— Douglas Coupland

“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have…

— Douglas Coupland

I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for…

— Douglas Coupland

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they…

— Douglas Coupland

If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight…

— Douglas Coupland

And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost…

— Douglas Coupland

I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life…

— Douglas Coupland

What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the…

— Douglas Coupland

I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because…

— Douglas Coupland

You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a…

— Douglas Coupland

I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite…

— Douglas Coupland

Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and…

— Douglas Coupland

Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a…

— Douglas Coupland

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

— Douglas Coupland

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

— Douglas Coupland

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

— Douglas Coupland

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

— Douglas Coupland

I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.

— Douglas Coupland

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

— Douglas Coupland

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

— Douglas Coupland