Explore Quotes by Jamie Hyneman

Adam and I don't consider ourselves friends. We don't spend any time together that we don't have to.

Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

We are seeing robotics creep into all areas and become accessible, where it used to be something tedious that only the most persistent people could access.

I was a problematic kid, to be sure.

We've gotten quite creative with our use of explosives... It's almost like an art form, rather than just blowing crap up.

I love Tim Curry as the Devil in 'Legend;' the prosthetics that are on him are so over the top sensually evil, and Tim takes full advantage, is just oozing with the role. The makeup and prosthetics, and his character are seamless.

Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style.

I wouldn't spend five minutes with Adam outside work if I didn't have to. But yet I feel somewhat displaced without him in the workplace... destroying my tools and leaving messes everywhere he goes.

If I had one word to describe how I feel at never having to work with co-host Adam Savage again it'd be relief.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

Neither of us were experienced hosts on television. But the show seemd to moved in the direction of our characters, the way we approached things. It evolved around us and the things we think are interesting.

A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.

I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.

Over time, shop classes sort of disappeared or got marginalized in the states. I don't really know why. Now with tech like 3-D printers and CNCs, shops have acquired a new shine.

I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

An indispensable tool is a pair of diagonal cutting Knipex pliers. There isn't any other hand tool of any other brand that stands up to it.

We're not too out there to educate people about any specific thing necessarily so much as we are to encourage critical and scientific thinking.

A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because getting up and getting dressed took too long.

Terry Gilliam has directed some of the best examples of what I like to see in a film - one of them being 'Baron Munchausen.'

I pretty much just use my smartphone for phone calls.