Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette
Penn Fraser Jilletteis an American magician, juggler, comedian, musician, inventor, actor, and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. He is also known for his advocacy of atheism, scientific skepticism, libertarianism and free-market capitalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMagician
Date of Birth5 March 1955
CityGreenfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
reproduce technology took
My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.
punishment rewards morality
If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.
messages mediums
The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
punishment rewards morality
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.
libertarian sound republican
You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.
mysterious-ways way mysterious
God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways
halfway god-is-dead
There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.
intellectual psycho celebration
When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
thinking compassion people
People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.
taste admission i-can
Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
couple dad years
This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.
cheesy magic cold
I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
looking-good magician
All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
giving-money bills buying
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.