Top 133 Quotes & Sayings by Jamie Hyneman - Page 2

It's fun to use your brain.

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

There are a couple of scenes in David Lynch's 'Dune' that I loved - again, small things but inspired and elegantly done.

When I watch a movie I don't really care too much about the plot - not that it isn't important, but what I remember is the visual imagery, something that happens in an individual scene.

Miles Flannery - he's a beast. Very talented, but a brute. He's one of three guys who help us keep the shop maintained, help us set up on location and assist in building something if time is short.

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.

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.

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

Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.

You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.

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

We seriously irritate each other and don't want to spend any time together. And yet we have a profound respect for the partnership. We're like a couple of dogs with a rag.

Both Adam and I come from a practical effects background.

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.

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 couldn't be happier that the show has encouraged kids to have an interest in science and math, but we don't try to do that. We just have fun, which is its own bold statement.

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

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.

I think when you do stuff in a computer people tend to dismiss it. It also allows you to make a lot of stuff totally not connected with reality because you're not limited by any kind of reality.

We're these guys that are very tech-savvy, so people tend to expect us to say our favorite gadgets are thing like the latest iPhone or the latest app or something like that. Adam is pretty much like that. As far as myself, I'm the kind of guy that tends to go for the absolute simplest things.

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

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.

I'm sort of reluctant to celebrity.

The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.

There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.

I pretty much just use my smartphone for phone calls.

I'm excited about all technology.

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.

I've run several of my own small businesses in my life.

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.

If you ever decide to build a boat out of wet newspaper, it's important to remember to lay down the sheets like shingles on a house: One issue at a time, starting at the bow and moving aft, so water flows over the layers, not under them.

I was a problematic kid, to be sure.

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

I never dreamed we would be on television at all, much less for such a long time and with so much praise for keeping a thought provoking show on the air. And best of all, we were able to do what we do and still have all our fingers and toes.

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

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.

I'm not an early adopter of technology unless I consider it absolutely indispensable.

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

When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.

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

Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you - because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable.

One of our neighbors is a salami distributor, and they pretty well - I mean, we used their salami to make a rocket engine out of. They just look at us and they're amused, they're fine with it.

I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain.

We don't have formal training, that makes what we're experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed. While LEGOs are sold in kits in order to build specific things, there [are] very few people who leave their LEGOs in those kits. It very rapidly becomes an open system where you can build whatever you want. That's the one thing that signifies my entire life and my career. I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

The idea that you can contribute is really important, especially for a kid.

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

When I figured that I could do anything if I was simply methodical about it. I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be dynamic. I came up with special effects.

I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

Actually I'm pretty adamant about, you know, the whole God thing and it seems that skeptics are by and large atheists or something approaching that, which I strongly identify with. So it turned out to be a good thing and I have become enthusiastically part of it.

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

If at first you don't succeed, C4

Duct tape is not a perfect solution to anything. But with a little creativity, in a pinch, it's an adequate solution to just about everything.

There are a lot of things that I'd do differently. But I can't imagine being more fortunate than I have been.

I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.