Charlie Brooker Quotes

Never bet on baseball.

Being famous is complete luck, and that's something you can't bank on.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

it is … not a good idea to resort to tossing coins.

Technology is like the ante in a poker game. It is the price you pay to play the game. But it doesn't mean you are going to win.

Forecasting will always be somewhat of a coin toss.

I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.

Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

Being an entrepreneur is all about risk. Being an entrepreneur is like going to Vegas every day and shoving all of your chips into the middle of the table every single day.

I don't even know what it means to fix a matchI, wouldn't know where to start.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Play is experimenting with chance.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?