“Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.”

“Soon it will be achieved. The lie of television has been that there are contexts to which television will grant an access. Since lies last, usually, no more than one generation, television will re-form around the idea that television itself is a context to which television will grant an access.”

George W. S. Trow (1943–2006) American writer

“If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.”

Gerald Durrell (1925–1995) naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter

“If you want to get a television today -- I buy thousands of television sets. If I want a television, I would love the buy American-made televisions like they used to have where they had GE and Sylvania and all of the different. Today, it's Samsung, it's LG, it's Sony. We don't make televisions anymore.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

“(Television) Our station is experiencing technical difficulties, so please try and amuse yourselves in whatever way you did before you became so emotionally dependent on us.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

“As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

“The revolution will not be televised.”

Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011) American musician, poet and author

“The revolution will be televised.”

Snoop Dogg (1971) American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor

“The revolution will not be televised.”

Ralph Smart

“If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach
them how to use television.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist