Douglas Coupland

If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.

We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there.

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.