Skip to content

Truly modern citizens are both charismatic and can only respond to other people with charisma. To survive, people need to become self-branding charisma robots. Yet, ironically, society mocks and punishes people who aspire to that state.

— Douglas Coupland Generation A (2009)

Another quote →

More quotes by Douglas Coupland

The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.

Only damaged people want good things to happen to them through visualization. They want something for nothing.

JPod (2006)

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

JPod (2006)

Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world — everyone has one and it never gets used.

JPod (2006)

All Douglas Coupland quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Douglas Coupland (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.