Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability..

I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments..

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving..

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet..

I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman'….

If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't gonna hurt much more..

These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what….

I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!.

I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things,….

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I ….

Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and ar….

Failure is always an option..

That's our job - to strap rockets onto everything..

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of a….

The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you know we're always going to g….

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?.

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash..

This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'.

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin….

In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each i….

The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we're finding fertile materi….