Philo Farnsworth
"There's nothing on [television] worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet."
Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, to his children. In the 1930s.
“Get this, and get it straight: Crime is a sucker’s road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison, or the grave. There’s no other end… but they never learn.”
"There's nothing on [television] worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet."
Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, to his children. In the 1930s.