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" There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more. "

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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.' "

Douglas Coupland

Money

Men

" I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Star Trek characters never go shopping. "

" Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you. "

" I always thought of words as art supplies. "

" The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts. "

Douglas Coupland

New

Ability

" 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. "

" If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. "

" In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop. "

" When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it. "

Douglas Coupland

Feel

Look

" It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either. "

" 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. "

" It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day. "

" TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix. "

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

" It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. "

" 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. "

" I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time. "

Douglas Coupland

New York

Live

" Purchased experiences don't count. "

" Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out. "

" To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot. "

" Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do. "

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

" The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. "

" I tend to look for pathologies everywhere. "

" Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. "

" Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths. "

Douglas Coupland

Turned

Nothing

" Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness. "