Douglas Coupland Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.”

“Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.”

“Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'”

“Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.”

“I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.”

“I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.”

“Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.”

“The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.”

“The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.”

“We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.”