"Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set."
Raymond Chandler, novelist
“Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.”
Author Unknown
“If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.”
Jerome Singer, psychologist and Professor Emeritus, Yale
“All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?”
Nicholas Johnson, FCC commissioner (1966-1973) and author of How to Talk Back to Your Television Set
“I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.”
Groucho Marx, actor and comedian
