After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black s….

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is throug….

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos..

I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both a….

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creativ….

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!.

Am I missing an eyebrow?.

Lists are how I parse and manage the world..

There is no dignity in television..

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself..

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrec….

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that..

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test..

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things..

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse..

I reject your reality and substitute my own..

I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters. You know, it's the best job I've ever had, on ….

Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?.

I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts fro….