(818 quotes found)
“If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?”
Robin Williams
“A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.”
W. Edwards Deming
“I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free speech doesn't apply at work. You can't just walk into your boss' office and say 'you're a fuckface and I'm gonna go back to work now.' No, you're not.”
Jon Stewart
“Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hacker”
Kevin Kwaku
“[When the Emmy nominations come out, there's always a tally of how the Big Four networks stacked up compared to the cable networks. HBO, in recent years giving NBC a run for its money with several of its own critically lauded original series, is hoping for nods for the comedy series] Sex in the City, ... The Sopranos.”
Sarah Jessica Parker
“In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.”
Ted Koppel
“I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.”
Connie Chung
“Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .”
Potter Stewart
“[The series on these networks also often focused on the adolescent years, historically a treacherous period for young actors. Speaking of] Lizzie McGuire, ... The revelatory episode for us was when Lizzie McGuire had to buy her first bra. I watched it and it sort of took my breath away. Because I knew, this is - hello! - every single girl in the world is going through this experience.”
Hilary Duff
“The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.”
Judith Butler
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