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 w…

- Charlie Brooker

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 opportun…

- Charlie Brooker

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face l…

- Charlie Brooker

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

- Charlie Brooker

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

- Charlie Brooker

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 …

- Charlie Brooker

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

- Charlie Brooker

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

- Charlie Brooker

The news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting…

- Charlie Brooker