“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.”

Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.

Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.

Failure is always an option.

Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.

Am I missing an eyebrow?

And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.

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!

There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.

Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.

We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward

They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day.