Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic Quotes

“Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people. We have no proof that the bad, stupid crazy people who have planted bombs in the past few years used the phone much for their stupid bad crimes, let alone logged on the Internet. Yet when those kind of bad things happen nowadays, the government tries to do bad things to phones and the Net. The phones and the Internet are just good smart things, and the government should leave them alone. You have to watch the government all the time on everything. Thomas Jefferson didn't say that, but he said something very close to that.”
― Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic

“Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.”
― Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic

“In the late twentieth century we consider solitude our natural condition. Mates divorce, and even friendship is diagnosed as a disorder - co-dependency. So the concept of living a life interlocked with another human is unthinkable”
― Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic

“So no one cares - and that protects your personal privacy. At least most of the time no one cares. I'm not making the argument that if we're doing nothing wrong, then we shouldn't be afraid of the government monitoring us. That's a stupid, bad argument. We should always be afraid of any government monitoring us. The fact that no one cares what we're talking about is an argument for keeping it that way. We don't want the government to be able to care. Any power you give the government, the government will abuse. George Washington almost said that.”
― Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic

“I was asking people, "Have you ever seen a night launch before?"

One guy answered, "Not from the outside, no."

You have to be careful about trying to be cool at a Rockwell party.”
― Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic