Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you know, '5:15,' and they'll say, 'Hey! Made you talk!' And that's merely a way of saying, 'I know your work and I like you.'
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Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
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To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.
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The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.
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People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don't. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks.
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Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.
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When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could.
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I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that.
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Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.
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Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
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Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.
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If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
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If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
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'Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance.