Microserfs

by Douglas Coupland

Repetition breeds inertia.

Games are about providing control for nine year olds … “the bigger and neater the entity I can control, the better.”

I only need 2 hours of people a day. I can; get by on that amount. 2 hours of FaceTime.

It never even entered our heads to think Bug was anything except a sexually frustrated, bitter crank, which is not unusual

Pool is like rollerblading: you have to pretend you’re the cooly-wooliest person on earth, while you’re quietly cringing inside.

Sometimes we all forget that the world itself is paradise, and there has been much of late to encourage that amnesia.