159 Quotes by Jamie Hyneman

We don’t have formal training, that makes what we’re experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.

Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you – because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable.

I always telling people to “not try this at home,” because most of what we do on MythBusters is really dangerous. Consequently, we can’t encourage people to try that stuff.

We should point out that if we feel like we’ve upset somebody and they’re vitriolic, if people are actively pursuing some sort of complaint, then we’ve done our job.

I think “MythBusters” is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It’s more challenging and even transcendental.

Actually I’m pretty adamant about, you know, the whole God thing and it seems that skeptics are by and large atheists or something approaching that, which I strongly identify with. So it turned out to be a good thing and I have become enthusiastically part of it.

One of our neighbors is a salami distributor, and they pretty well – I mean, we used their salami to make a rocket engine out of. They just look at us and they’re amused, they’re fine with it.

There are a lot of things that I’d do differently. But I can’t imagine being more fortunate than I have been.

We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources – it’s a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so.