Doug Coupland Quotes – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

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.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. 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.

Purchased experiences don't count.

Technology favors horrible people.

A ring is a halo on your finger.

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

I've got 911 on speed dial.

Fate is for losers.