I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.
Douglas CouplandTags: mathematics
To bring order into this jangled sphere man must find its centre" Marshall McLuhan
Douglas Coupland...Marshall alone his room with a comically tall stack of books, methodically absorbing their contents as though they were drugs...
Douglas CouplandWhen hit with a genius idea, people tend to say, "Well, if I sat down in a chair and really thought about it, I could have had that genius idea, too." But they didn't--and even if they'd wanted to, it could never have happened.
Douglas CouplandHe knew that the fuel his brain craved could only be found in a proper university.
Douglas CouplandQ: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be?
A: You already are an animal.
But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested in understanding how marketers exploit them. They take shopping at face value.
Douglas CouplandBut I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk of brain cells that otherwise would be giving you trouble overloading your thinking. New scenery continually erases what came before; memory is lost, shuffled, relabeled and forgotten. Gum is chewed; buttons are pushed; windows are lowered and opened. A fast moving car is the only place where you're legally allowed to not deal with your problems. It's enforced meditation and this is good.
Douglas CouplandIt is with these thoughts in mind that I now see the drifter's windburned face when I now consider my world-his face that reminds that there is still something left to believe in after there is nothing left to believe. A face for people like me-who were pushed to the edge of loneliness and who maybe fell off and who when we climbed back on, our world never looked the same
Douglas CouplandNerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Nerds overfocus. I guess that's the problem. But it's precisely this ability to narrow-focus that makes them so good at code writing...
Douglas CouplandTags: hilarious-nerd
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