802 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

Jason’s father, Reg, always said “Love what God loves and hate what God hates,” but more often than not I had the impression that he really meant “Love what Reg loves and hate what Reg hates.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it’s all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

It’s difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It’s why publishers don’t worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?

With Google I’m starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

Being asked what animal you’d like to be is a trick question; you’re already an animal.

We then return our gaze to the mirror-boxed future-towns circling us-the hard drives of our culture, where the human tribe is making flesh its deepest needs and fears; teaching machines to think; accelerating the pace of obsolescence; designing new animals to replace the animals we’ve erased; value adding; reconstructing the future.

Kids today do nothing. They’re so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.