Charlie Brooker

“The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.”

“Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.”

“I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.”

“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.”

“I'm quite techy and gadgety.”

“When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.”

“One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.”

“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 have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.”

“I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.”

“Everyone's opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime prop. To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock. You were like a caveman gawping at a yo-yo.”

“It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.”

“Tinder is the ultimate gamification of romance. It's 'Pokemon Go' for the heart.”

“Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.”

“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.”

“Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.”

“If the Walkman had, by default, silently contacted your friends and told them what you were listening to, not only would no one have bought a Walkman in the first place, its designers would have been viewed with the utmost suspicion.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“Like bankers, top footballers are massively overpaid, but at least you comprehend what they're doing for the money.”