“My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.” ThinkingMadeFilmPayAttentionRecordsTelevisionMachinesMy FavoritePay AttentionVisualsTapeSoundtracksAnswering Machines Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?” PeopleIdeasTelevisionTaxesMachinesFundWhy NotOwnershipWashingWashing Machines Author:Jeremy Paxman
“Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications?” ShouldTryingLooksBookUseTelevisionComputerMachinesFilledDevicesApplicationShelvesTelephonesWashingBookstoresRefrigeratorsBookshelvesWashing Machines Author:Donald A. Norman
“Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.” WarRunningSituationComedyStyleTelevisionDramaElementsSpringEuropeMachinesResponseMythInevitableLogicalAdvertisementsIrrationality Author:Arnold Aronson
“When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.” HumansSeemsHuman BeingsProduceTelevisionMachinesProtagonists Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
“All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material.” WorldUseSpeakWatchesTechnologyTelevisionMaterialsEssentialsComputerProgramMachinesPhonesPremisesMaterial WorldFaxFax Machines Author:Deepak Chopra
“Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down.” IfsKnowsWorldMindPlayHappensPurposeTelevisionWindowMachinesNotesRelateExceptionBroadsExaggerationWatching TelevisionFodderNote Taking Author:George Carlin
“Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.” IfsWorldWellsLongPurposeLevelsBrainTelevisionMassGainsMachinesDelightInsightMediumsIronyDemonIsolationFascinatedTubesInsidiousBanalityAssorted Book:The Petting Zoo: A Novel Source: The Petting Zoo: A Novel
“I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.” WonderTelevisionGoes OnMachinesStimulusDope Author:James Purdy
“If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families that have a dishwasher, that have a sewing machine, that have a television set. In respect to consumption, it's very hard to avoid the view that people have been getting more equal rather than more unequal.” PeopleIfsLooksHas BeensHardLevelsViewsTelevisionEqualMachinesIncomeConsumptionFractionsSewingDishwashers Author:Milton Friedman
“I think the Trump thing is particularly egregious, and I think he's as much a product of the GOP lie machine in the era of Roger Ailes as he is of television. And also, of the Twitter era. Of the everything-is-as-reductive-as-it-can-be. To me, the most telling thing is we have a man who cannot complete a sentence. Certainly could never get to 140 characters, or past it. He thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.” ThinkingMenWayLittlesCharacterPastLyingTelevisionProductsTrumpMachinesSentencesTinyErasTweetRogerGop140 Character Author:Joss Whedon
“We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of television, and have been subjected to what I call "the age of interruption," where everything is interrupted every minute. We have constant input from TV, computers, fax machines, telephones, etc. It's very hard for a modern American to have two hours of uninterrupted time. I know how it is because I insist on several hours of uninterrupted time each day, and I know how ruthless I have to be to get it.” KnowsYearsHas BeensTwoHardAgeCultureHoursKnow HowFiveModernMinutesTelevisionTvsComputerMachinesConstantExtremesFive YearsEach DayEtcTelephonesRuthlessInterruptedInputInterruptionsOld YouFive Year OldsIndirectFaxFax Machines Author:Michael Ventura
“Television is the triumph of machine over people.” PeopleHumorFunnyComedyTelevisionMachinesTriumph Author:Fred Allen
“[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.” IfsMayBigsForceRealizingCompanyInformationPolicyTelevisionMachinesRadioJewIsraelNewspapersPropagandaConsiderationComplaintsJudaismMotion PicturesBig Companies Author:Richard M. Nixon