“Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.”

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.

From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.

In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head

America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.

What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.

Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I’m more interested in, there’s the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

People need to learn to live with more risk.

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM