Canadian - Author | December 30, 1961 -
Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website.
Douglas Coupland
CommunityTimeMoneyFeelYouSense
In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there.
LifeFutureSpiritualViewYouLook
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.
PeopleWorryYouPersonWhyGoogle
I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.
TimeDayYouBackGoSaid
I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace.
NeverGoneFacebookMyspace
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 even like opening mail; I'm weird.
WeirdYouJust BecauseRingOpening
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
AnimalYouQuestionBeingLike
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
MemoriesDayBrainStrongDieNew
Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.
ChildrenLivingDrinkOutClowns
Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
PeopleStrongGood-LookingTeethGet
Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
LifeYouOutWellFigureThen
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
AloneLonelyFeelingPriceNothing
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Douglas Coupland quotes