New Year’s resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it. Charlie Brooker Read Quote
In the early ’80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen. Charlie Brooker Read Quote
Youth fare aside, I have generally always been interested in what’s going on culturally. Charlie Brooker Read Quote
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. Charlie Brooker Read Quote
I’m no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I’ll emit an unbroken 10-minute ‘um’ through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse. Charlie Brooker Read Quote
Calling Batman ‘the Dark Knight’ is like calling Papa Smurf ‘the Blue Patriarch’:you’re not fooling anyone. Charlie Brooker Read Quote
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. Charlie Brooker Read Quote