I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we're q….

The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. ….

I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste..

Failure is always an option..

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

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

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things..

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven..

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral..

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

Isn't television glamourous?.

It's a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It's a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!.

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

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'….

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,….

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone..

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….

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 ….

Let's blow some stuff up..

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..

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