Television, attention, and the choices we make

I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence.

If you came and you found a strange man...

I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV.

In Beverley Hills, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into television shows.

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.

The triumph of machine over people.

American children and adolescents spend 22 to 28 hours per week viewing television, more than any other activity except sleeping.

Children cannot learn to read by watching television. Television is just background noise and a distraction.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

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

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.

Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.

Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control.

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

Television is simply automated day-dreaming.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies.

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.

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

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.