“Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.”

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!

It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.

Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best.

Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.

I think it’s like everything else; one shouldn’t dig too deeply.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;