Explore Quotes by Jamie Hyneman

Both Adam and I come from a practical effects background.

As far as I'm concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can't think of anything I'd rather see happen.

Adam's impulsive and energetic, and I'm calm and methodical.

Occasionally, you know, a myth is specific with a certain model of car, you know, like a Corvette or whatever. And so we end up spending some cash on those.

I have to say that we're not actors, at least on 'Mythbusters' or any of the other television projects that we've done.

Children are just little scientists.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

In my case you can pretty well figure that you can put a beret and a mustache on just about anything you want and it looks like me.

I was approached to do 'MythBusters' in 2002. I didn't think it would go anywhere, but I guess anything can happen if you wear a funny hat and have lots of facial hair.

I've ended up water skiing behind the Stanford rowing team as well as water skiing behind an excavator while it swung around in a circle.

I grew up on an apple orchard with a lot of surrounding wooded area, and I ran everywhere. I was outside all the time climbing trees.

As it turns out, one of the biggest choices we have doing the show is deciding the tangents we are allowed to take, the stuff that we see along the way. 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'm developing some new kinds of robotic firefighting vehicles to help with the massive forest fires we're dealing with in the West.

I'm a little suspicious of using microwaves.

Duct tape is like that. It's a building block. You can make a rope out of it, you can make a cloth out of it. And because it sticks to stuff it's even more powerful. It's like an uber-material because of the versatility of a sticky fiber.

I'm not a sociable person. I don't like to talk.

After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.

Algae are such basic, simple organisms.

One of the main reasons for success on the show is that we're not a demonstration show. We're an experimentation show.

Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.

We're fond of pointing out that we've known each other for over 25 years now and not once sat down alone to have dinner together. We pretty much avoid spending whatever time together that we can.