Technology Quotes by Penn Jillette

11 Technology quotes by Penn Jillette

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Penn Jillette approaches technology with a magician’s skepticism and a comedian’s wit. In this brief collection you’ll catch his sharp, sometimes irreverent take on how gadgets influence our reality.

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Technology adds nothing to art.

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The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

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Technology is run by sex, because it's very important to people, both technology and sex.

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My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

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For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

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When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to…

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The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait…

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My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion…

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story…

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“Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and the…

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I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

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Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

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I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the…

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I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt…

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I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when…

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I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

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It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'

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The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.

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Well, it's not really the right word, but freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend…

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It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

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My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

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Freedom means the right to be stupid.

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“Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.”

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