“Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.”

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.

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.

How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.

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

I like to say I’m geek-chic with a little bit of showgirl.I get asked it a lot, and it really does kind of sum it up.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.

I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

I wouldn’t call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers.

Geek it’s really more a characteristic where you don’t socialize. You don’t talk the normal languages.