Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland OC OBCis a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as "McJob" and "Generation X". He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 December 1961
CountryCanada
I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.
Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.
Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots.
I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.
I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.
Nobody likes being told who or what they are.
Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.
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.
My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.