Charlie Brooker Quotes
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I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.
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A lot of people think right-wingers aren't capable of being amusing at all. Not true. Mussolini looked hilarious swinging from that lamppost.
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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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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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'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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I remember when I realised, as a child, 'That stuff on the TV about nuclear bombs is real! Why isn't everyone running around shouting 'Aaarrgghh'? Why are people still buying bicycle clips?'
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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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That's certainly made me think. It's made me think I don't want a television any more.
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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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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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At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.
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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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I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the ability or the desire to categorise things of that nature.
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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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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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I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.
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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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The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.
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I haven't always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames.
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Videogames are probably my first love.
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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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Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.
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When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.