“Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.”

It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

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

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.

The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.

It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul

That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.

Let’s blow some stuff up.

Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.

This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’

Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.

And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work.