Charlie Brooker
Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.Collection: Computers
I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.Collection: Space
When a monk takes a vow of silence, is he still allowed to post messages on the Internet? Chances are God won't find out. Being ancient, God probably can't work computers. He holds the mouse gingerly, like it's made of fine china.Collection: Computers
Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.Collection: Diet
In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.Collection: Age
New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Technology
There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.Collection: Fitness
Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat waiters and shop assistants, especially when you are one.
If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.
It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left.
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.
I've got a phobia about throwing up.
In the early '80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.
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.
I didn't pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn't harm me in the long run, my failure to complete the course properly probably led me to spend the next six years or so coasting, unsure of what to do next.
It must be awful, being a homophobe.
With 'Hang the DJ,' I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for 'Black Mirror.'
Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.
It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.
We take miracles for granted on a daily basis.
Tinder is the ultimate gamification of romance. It's 'Pokemon Go' for the heart.
My career path is like crazy paving - it goes all over the place.
When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Videogames are probably my first love.
I'm looking forward to the 'Twilight Zone' from Jordan Peele... if anyone's gonna reboot the 'Twilight Zone,' then there's the man to do it.
I haven't always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames.
We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.
Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.
'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.
People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.
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.
At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.
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.
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.
I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.
I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like 'Tales of the Unexpected,' 'Hammer House of Horror,' 'The Twilight Zone' and 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'
I'm not anti-technology at all, really.
I liked 'Making A Murderer,' 'Master of None.' 'Stranger Things' I watched along with everyone else in the world. 'Narcos,' I really liked 'Narcos' a lot.
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?'
I'm extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built.
I used to draw comics a lot. I was obsessed with 'The Young Ones,' and was massively into video games, although I was no good at them.
I'm quite techy and gadgety.
Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.
I've got no attention span.
I wanna do some more goofy comedy stuff; I really enjoyed doing 'A Touch of Cloth.'
I loved 'Get Out.'
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?'
The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.