Charlie Brooker Quotes

Like bankers, top footballers are massively overpaid, but at least you comprehend what they're doing for the money.
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.
My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.
My career path is like crazy paving - it goes all over the place.
New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.
Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.
On 'Black Mirror,' we don't tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, 'Is he capable of feeling anything?'
Online, you play at being yourself.
Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect, it amplifies the desire for groupthink.
Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.
People always assume I went to public school, which I didn't, so that immediately puts me somewhere.
People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.
People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.
Rather than setting yourself a New Year's resolution, why not simply pick a reason for hating yourself for the next 365 days? Takes less time, and it's easier to stick to.
Short of finding a place on the witness protection programme, you don't get many opportunities to completely reinvent your life. Going to university changes that. Away from home, away from parents, away from anyone who remembers you from school, you can pretend to be far cooler and more experienced than you are.
Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.
The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'
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.
The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.
The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.
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