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

—Eric Sevareid

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MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.

—Doug Ferrari

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

—David Frost

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Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

—Clive Barnes

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

—Ann Landers

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

—Alfred Hitchcock

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Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

—Alfred Hitchcock

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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

—Alan Corenk

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There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

—Unknown

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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

—Robert Pirsig

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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

—Richard Feynman

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We make our gadgets our own by the way that we use them, with or without the permission of the manufacturer.

—Max Frisch

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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

—Cory Doctorow

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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

—Bernard Baruch

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For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.

—Unknown

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