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Microserfs QUOTES

Microserfs QUOTES

1 " Sometimes we all forget that the world itself is paradise, and there has been much of late to enourage that amnesia. (Microserfs, p 366) "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

2 " We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

3 " What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals? "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

4 " The Fry’s chain completely taps into MSE: Male Shopping Energy. This is to say that most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they’re gone for the day—if not the week—and can’t be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

5 " Los ingenieros del agua dejaron el calentador de la piscina en marcha demasiado tiempo y, por la noche, los vapores de cloro se elevaron por encima de la vida vegetal del planeta, y yo imaginé mi carne en el interior de la piscina, cálida, protegida, sintiendo la gravedad, pero capaz al mismo tiempo de burlarla flotando. ¿Flotarías conmigo ahora, si te lo pidiera, saltarías a la piscina, sin desnudarte siquiera? ¿Podría desnudarte dentro, quitarte la ropa y hundirnos juntos en el agua? "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

6 " The whole Silicon Valley is oxymoronic—geeky and rich and hip. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

7 " The less of a life, the more mail you need "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

8 " Once you’ve used your brain flat-out, you can’t go into the SLOW mode. You can’t drive an Infinite J-3B and then get downgraded to an Daewoo. Brains don’t workd that way. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

9 " [...] we started talking more about all of the fiftysomethings being dumped out of the economy by downsizing. No one knows what to do with these people, and it's so sad, because being 50 nowadays isn't like being 50 a hundred years ago when you'd probably be dead. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

10 " [...] it would have been an affront to all good souls who had worked for a better world over the millennia not to engineer a system for preserving finer thoughts after the millennium arrived and all ideologies died and people became animals once more. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

11 " At meetings you have to explain what you've accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

12 " One psycho for every nine stable people in the company is a good ratio. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

13 " We threw chew toys to Misty, Mom’s golden retriever that she bought two years ago secondhand. Misty was supposed to be a seeing-eye dog, but she failed her exam because she’s too affectionate. It’s a flaw we don’t mind. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

14 " Speaking of the information superhighway, we have all given each other official permission to administer a beating to whoever uses that accursed term. We're so sick of it! "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

15 " You could return to that same hive a thousand years later and there would be just the same perception of tomorrow as never being any different. Humans are completely different. We assume tomorrow is another world. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

16 " Because in the end we forget everything, anyway. We're human; we're amnesia machines. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

17 " ...and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take my heart-- stains and all?" and they say "I will," and they ask you the same question and you say, "I will," too. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

18 " I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

19 " I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs

20 " Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends. "

― Douglas Coupland , Microserfs