Charlie Brooker Quotes

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• Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment ... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.

  Charlie Brooker

  Running, Men, Pigs

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “The Hell of it All”, p.358, Faber & Faber

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• If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

  Charlie Brooker

  Technology, Drug, Doe

  "Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. December 01, 2011.

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• The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.

  Charlie Brooker

  Years, Differences, Smartphones

  "Apple's software updates are like changing the water in a fish tank. I'd rather let the fish die" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

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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.

  Charlie Brooker

  Sarcastic, Thinking, People

  "Charlie Brooker answers your questions: 'I get angry to amuse myself'". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

  Charlie Brooker

  Skills, Oxford, People

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• I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

  Charlie Brooker

  Technology, Worst Case Scenario, Cases

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, Thinking, Media

  Source: collider.com

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• My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

  Charlie Brooker

  Personality, Online, Used

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting legal weapons really, they don't just gag the press, they gag them from mentioning the existence of the gag. Sport belongs in a news bulletin about as much as a mummified cat's head belongs in a Caesar salad. Combine the "mounting pressure" with the "growing cause" and you've got yourself a "media whirlwind" which you can also refer to.

  Charlie Brooker

  Sports, Cat, Media

  "Newswipe with Charlie Brooker", 2009 - 2010.

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• The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional “live audience” quickly conspire to create a “perfect storm” of perpetual bickering.

  Charlie Brooker

  Opportunity, Perfect, Storm

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.164, Faber & Faber

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• Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

  Charlie Brooker

  Winning, Men, Idiot

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “The Hell of it All”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• I think more and more people became aware that social media was starting to feel like a more toxic space. And, I mean - quite a lot of incidents of people getting very, very angry about all kinds of things and attacking people.

  Charlie Brooker

  Mean, Thinking, Space

  "'Black Mirror' Creator Dramatizes Our Worst Nightmares About Technology". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, weku.fm.

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• Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.

  Charlie Brooker

  Army, Fire, Doors

  "Supposing... We invent some decoy doomsday scenarios" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2006.

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• When I was a chain smoker, I used to wake up and the first thing I'd do was reach for a cigarette, basically. And now I do the same thing for a smartphone, basically.

  Charlie Brooker

  Smartphones, Wake Up, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels

  Charlie Brooker

  Dog, Light, Rocks

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.320, Faber & Faber

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• The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

  Charlie Brooker

  Teenage, Party, House

  Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Amish: The World's Squarest Teenagers" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2010.

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• Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.

  Charlie Brooker

  Believe, Mind, Want

  "When It Comes to Psychics, My Stance Is Hardcore: They Must Die Alone in Windowless Cells". www.theguardian.com. December 04, 2006.

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• [Worshipping God] is like fellating someone who intermittently stubs fags out on your head for no good reason. And we all know how unsatisfying that can be.

  Charlie Brooker

  Reason, Worship God, Know How

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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• Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

  Charlie Brooker

  Real, Doors, Shoes

  "The very fabric of society is breaking down around us. What the hell is there left to believe in?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2009.

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• We've got characters in the UK like Boris Johnson, who's kind of like a proto Trump in many ways even down to the crazy blonde hair. Then Mayor of London, now Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson was widely seen as a cartoonish oaf and that made him strangely undentable as a politician. No one could land a blow on him because he was already ridiculous.

  Charlie Brooker

  Crazy, Character, Blow

  Source: deadline.com

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• Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.npr.org

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• That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

  Charlie Brooker

  Thinking, Thinking Right, Gone

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

  Charlie Brooker

  Destiny, Numbers, Letters

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.220, Faber & Faber

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• Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

  Charlie Brooker

  Technology, Default, New Things

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is indeed merely "a theory", albeit one with ten billion times more credence than the theory of creationism - although, to be fair, the theory of creationism is more than just a theory. It's also a fairy story. And children love fairy stories, which is presumably why so many creationists are keen to have their whimsical gibberish taught in schools.

  Charlie Brooker

  Children, School, Fairy Stories

  "When it comes to psychics, my stance is hardcore: they must die alone in windowless cells" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2006.

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