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

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.

In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies

We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.

I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.

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

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences.

It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.

Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.

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 what’s going on, we keep updated.

Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.

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.

it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.

They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!