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" 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.' "

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" I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. "

Douglas Coupland

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" If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it. "

" I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. "

" I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130. "

" 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. "

" Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows. "

" Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage. "

" My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's. "

" Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere. "

Douglas Coupland

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" If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. "

" A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it. "

" Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves. "

" The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com? "

" We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. "

" Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper. "

" My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house. "

" Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. "

" My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.' "

" I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow. "

" When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended. "

" Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen. "

" I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit. "

Douglas Coupland

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" I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there. "

" The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will. "

" 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. "

" In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free. "

" Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. "