“Lists are how I parse and manage the world.”

The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.

We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.

I wouldn’t say jamie is an evil genius. I’m not sure he’s evil and I’m not sure he’s a genius.

Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.

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.

That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

I realized I had some cultural capital to spend, and I wanted to use it to introduce another author who might be considered a risk by conventional publishers. Michael Noll was at the top of my list.

It’s 210BPM gabber-style techno and 40BPM reggae in the same list and it’s like, yeah, they work.

You can do that: you send away to the Philippines, and they send you a wife. The only thing is, once you’re on their mailing list, they keep sending you a relative a month whether you want it or not.

It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they’re going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.

It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.