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.
cameras catch couple great last safely technology underwater until
It's an idea we'd had for 15 years. But the technology did not catch up with us until the last couple of years, when we could have enough cameras safely enough underwater that it would look as great as we thought it would.
art technology add
Technology adds nothing to art.
technology light magic
For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
art technology world
The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
inspirational real technology
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
running sex technology
Technology is run by sex, because it's very important to people, both technology and sex.
art hero technology
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
five jazz obsessed talking
The whole thing comes from Provenza and I talking about be-bop jazz about five years ago when I got obsessed with it, and still am,
good magic needs realized time
And we realized it was time to do a show underwater. Magic needs a good head-soaking.
costello elvis five forward saw seeing
Five years ago, I was in New York, and I saw Elvis Costello and I said, 'I look forward to seeing you in Vegas,
allowed hours information manipulate minute
Provenza transcribed every minute of those hours on a computer. That allowed him to manipulate the information in his head, very much like Mozart, I would think,
idiot loving proved
proved that I wasn't an idiot for loving the American people.
good
The thing was, I have a very good job; he has a very good job,