# Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker (3 de março de 1971) é um roteirista, satirista e comentarista britânico. Ele é o criador da aclamada série antológica Black Mirror.
       - "This is the real world, stupid. We should be solving problems, not sticking our fingers in our ears and singing about fairies."
          - The Guardian, 2 de ago 2008, Charlie Brooker's screen burn
       - "One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing at a keyboard, there's hope for anyone."
          - The Guardian, 16 de agosto de 2010, Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want to write, get threatened
       - “Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so”
          - The Guardian, 18 de dezembro de 2006, "In a world that is running out of time, we need theories. So hooray for me, because I've got one"
    Bem-vindos a uma nova e perigosa era: o Desiluminismo, na qual séculos de pensamento racional são anulados por idiotas. Idiotas supersticiosos. Estão por todo o lado, a ler horóscopos, a comprar medicamentos homeopáticos, a consultar videntes, a dizer disparates sobre "chakras" e "energias curativas", a rezar a deuses imaginários e a trocar a ciência por tolices próprias de babões. Porém, em vez de esbofetearmos essas pessoas com força na cara até que comecem a comportar-se como adultos, encorajámo-las. Temos de respeitar as suas crenças, pelos vistos.
       - “In the 18th century, a revolution in thought, known as the Enlightenment, dragged us away from the superstition and brutality of the Middle Ages toward a modern age of science, reason and democracy. It changed everything. If it wasn't for the Enlightenment, you wouldn't be reading this right now. You'd be standing in a smock throwing turnips at a witch. Yes, the Enlightenment was one of the most significant developments since the wheel. Which is why we're trying to bollocks it all up.
       Welcome to a dangerous new era - the Unlightenment - in which centuries of rational thought are overturned by idiots. Superstitious idiots. They're everywhere - reading horoscopes, buying homeopathic remedies, consulting psychics, babbling about "chakras" and "healing energies", praying to imaginary gods, and rejecting science in favour of soft-headed bunkum. But instead of slapping these people round the face till they behave like adults, we encourage them. We've got to respect their beliefs, apparently.”
       -The Guardian, 11 de agosto de 2007, "Charlie Brooker's screen burn"
       -Darwin's theory of evolution was simple, beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring. But because it contradicts the allegorical babblings of a bunch of made-up old books, it's been under attack since day one. That's just tough luck for Darwin. If the Bible had contained a passage that claimed gravity is caused by God pulling objects toward the ground with magic invisible threads, we'd still be debating Newton with idiots too..”
          - The Guardian, 2 de ago 2008, Charlie Brooker's screen burn
       - 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.
          - Creator Spotlight: Charlie Brooker; como citado in Grammar Girl's 101 Words to Sound Smart - Página 66, Mignon Fogarty - St. Martin's Press, 2011, ISBN 142995129X, 9781429951296, 128 páginas
       -“I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one in our pathetic little pre-apocalyptic timebubble wants to be labelled "sad" - it's like being officially declared worthless by the state. So we muster a grin and go out on the town in our millions.”
          - Nightclubs are hell. What's cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots?
       -"Because you might get a shag," is the usual response. Really? If that's the only way you can find a partner - preening and jigging about like a desperate animal - you shouldn't be attempting to breed in the first place. What's your next trick? Inventing fire? People like you are going to spin civilisation into reverse. You're a moron, and so is that haircut you're trying to impress. Any offspring you eventually blast out should be drowned in a pan before they can do any harm. Or open any more nightclubs.
          - Nightclubs are hell. What's cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots?
       - 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.
          - The Hell of it All
       -“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”
          - Dawn of the Dumb
       - until this week the one thing I knew about the Twilight saga was that it had vampires in it, which was enough to put me off. I didn't realise it was a romantic fantasy aimed at teenage girls. Turns out it's possible to be put off something twice before you've actually seen it.
          - The Guardian, 12 jul 2010, Twilight's sulky vampires are less frightening than a knitted cushion