If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family gets together alone.

I was cable when cable wasn't cool.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

No wonder they call television a medium; it's so seldom rare and well-done.

When I was young we didn't have MTV. We had to take drugs and go to concerts.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

If it wasn't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

No matter what critics say, it's hard to believe that a television program which keeps four children quiet for an hour can be all bad.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games, the family activities and the arguments through which much of the child's learning takes place and his character is formed.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

The medium is the message.

Television deprives children of their imaginations.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.