I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.Douglas Coupland
I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.Douglas Coupland
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.Douglas Coupland
I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.Douglas Coupland
I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.Douglas Coupland
Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.Douglas Coupland
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.Douglas Coupland
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.Douglas Coupland
In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.Douglas Coupland
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.Douglas Coupland