Quotes By Doug Coupland
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Doug Coupland
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Doug Coupland
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
Doug Coupland
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
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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.
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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
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Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
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There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
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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.
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There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
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Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
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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.
Doug Coupland
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.
Doug Coupland