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Philo Farnsworth Quotes

1906–1971

Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.

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This has made it all worthwhile. (The live televised first step by Neil Armstrong on the moon.)

The damned thing works! (telegram, on the first successful television broadcast)

There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet. (to his son, on television)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Philo Farnsworth (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.