Charlie Brooker Quotes
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Amplifying body-image issues, profiting from anxiety, and employing virtual slaves in sweatshops are bad enough, but the fashion industry is also actively hastening the destruction of the very Earth we walk on. It insists on launching fresh collections each season, declaring yesterday's range obsolete on a whim.
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The majority of people are perfectly capable of interacting with retail staff without spitting on them or whipping their hides like dawdling cattle, but Planet Earth still harbours more than its fair share of disappointments.
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There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.
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We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.
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I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.
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When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.
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Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.
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Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we've grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.
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'MasterChef''s preliminary stages deliver just the right level of almost-drama for viewers feeling shagged out after a hard day's fruitless existence.
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When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.
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The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.
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Actually, I think this might be an Al-Qaeda recruitment film.
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Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.
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He could probably make you a cloud sandwich if you asked. Or a blancmange made of numbers.
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That's certainly made me think. It's made me think I don't want a television any more.
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All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?
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I'm not anti-technology at all, really.
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People always assume I went to public school, which I didn't, so that immediately puts me somewhere.
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I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.
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With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's a comic character. He's basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.
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At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.
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Humans will always babble. If someone wants to tweet that they can't decide whether to wear blue socks or brown socks, then fair enough. But when sharing becomes automated, I get the heebie-jeebies.
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The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.
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If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.