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

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.

Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.

I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.

I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.

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.

If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.

I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.

The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!

It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn’t tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.