I’m not patient – and I’m getting more impatient as I get older – but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: ‘He wasn’t patient, but he was disciplined.’ Douglas Coupland Read Quote
Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of ‘Mad Men.’ Douglas Coupland Read Quote
Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early – and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother’s side of the family in myself for the first time. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you’re supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it – which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn’t feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible – sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement. Douglas Coupland Read Quote
