"Television won't be able to hold on to a market.  People will soon
 get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
 - Daryl Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox Film Studios, 1946

"Television permits millions of people to listen to the same joke
 at the same time, and yet remain lonesome." - T. S. Eliot, 1963

"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible,
 commercially and financially it is an impossibility."
 - Lee De Forest, radio pioneer, 1926