| "In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait." Les Brown, Television: The Business Behind the Box, 1971. |
| "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." Mileah Davis |
| "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." Andy Warhol |
| "The secret of true genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." Aldous Huxley |
| "Acting is pretending that you're not pretending when you're actually pretending." Ted Danson |
| "Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot." Ogden Nash |
| "Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble." Benjamin Franklin |
| "The airwaves should belong to the people. If a TV signal comes trespassing onto my property, I should be free to do any damn thing I want with it, and it's none of the government's business." Anonymous, quoted by Charles Platt in 'Satellite Pirate', Wired magazine August 1994 |
| "Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television." Rita Mae Brown |
