Alan Kay Quotes

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

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

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters and somehow we must find some new way of using radio and television to allow us to talk to each other.

History must only guess at the effect that television would have had during earlier conflicts over the future of the nation.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

We have radio and TV in every single part of Mexico. And in every one of the 185,000 schools of Mexico there is an electronic blackboard connected to the Internet—every school.