Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
