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

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business"

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"

"I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car"

"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing"

"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then"

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens"

"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me"

"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set"

"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world"