“The car is effectively a black box.”

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

Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!

It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.

I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.

There’s this group online that I frequent.

“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”

My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.

And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

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.

I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,

Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.

Bad spellers of the world untie!

These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.

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 always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.

Our generation delimited the definition & horizon of Love in a box that mainly refers to love between a boy & a girl.

The building is a national tragedy – a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work – because if they don’t, they won’t be around the next time the ballot box is open.

When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and ‘Oh my gosh – look what it’s doing!’

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.