In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward - well, first he ca….

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

Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but i….

The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of wha….

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?.

There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard..

Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the….

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussi….

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..

I would have to say that looked like it hurt..

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

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….

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 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….

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us. That’s our people….

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it..

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Er….

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

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of….

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possi….

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down..