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Doug Coupland quotes

Canadian Author December 30, 1961

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It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. Ichose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to..."
I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me. Doug 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 the techies aren't grinding, the stock ain't climbing. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time...."
Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "I'd change you bandages for you, but you don't have any and..."
I'd change you bandages for you, but you don't have any and that's a big issue here. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "If you don't change, then what's the point of anything..."
If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? Doug Coupland
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "LET'S JUST HOPE WE ACCIDENTALLY BUILD GOD."
LET'S JUST HOPE WE ACCIDENTALLY BUILD GOD. Doug Coupland
But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parent? generation seems neither able nor interested in understanding how marketers exploit them. They take shopping at face value. Doug Coupland
Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Nerds overfocus. I guess that's the problem. But it's precisely this ability to narrow-focus that makes them so good at code writing... Doug Coupland
Abe: Wise hermit cast adrift on asteroid for thousands of years; has developed odd code languages for everyday actions; lonely but not bitter; his heart is cryogenically frozen, and he must search the universe pursuing the Thawer. Doug Coupland
I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are. Doug Coupland
Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church... Doug Coupland
For there was once a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised ever again. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being..."
We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time. Doug Coupland

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