“My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.”

—  Penn Jillette

As quoted in "Thoughts On the Business of Life" in Forbes magazine (12 November 2007) http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2007/1112/192.html
2000s

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