Jamie Hyneman Quotes

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Duct tape is not a perfect solution to anything. But with a little creativity, in a pinch, it's an adequate solution to just about everything.

Jamie Hyneman

Creativity, Perfect, Tape

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If at first you don't succeed, C4

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Firsts, Succeed, Ifs

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Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

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Guy, Coats, Labs

Source: www.timeout.com

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I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

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Thinking, Rays, Standing

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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.

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People, Different, Sometimes

Source: www.roadrunner.travel

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Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

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Fun, Thought Provoking, Attention

Source: popculturezoo.com

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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed. While LEGOs are sold in kits in order to build specific things, there [are] very few people who leave their LEGOs in those kits. It very rapidly becomes an open system where you can build whatever you want. That's the one thing that signifies my entire life and my career. I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

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Powerful, Kids, Thinking

Source: www.timeout.com

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Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

Jamie Hyneman

Good Day

"MythBusters (Cell Phone Destruction/Silicone Breasts/CD-ROM Shattering)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. October 3, 2003.

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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.

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Talking, Training, Littles

Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

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Atheist, Good Things, Skeptic

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When I figured that I could do anything if I was simply methodical about it. I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be dynamic. I came up with special effects.

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Fall, Careers, Creative

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I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

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Inspirational, Graduation, Long

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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.

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Mean, Looks, Rockets

Source: www.avclub.com

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The idea that you can contribute is really important, especially for a kid.

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Kids, Ideas, Important

Source: www.timeout.com

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We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

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Curiosity, Littles, Way

Source: www.avclub.com

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I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I
understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was
wrong. I should have done it.

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Math, Engineering, Should Have

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I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain.

Jamie Hyneman

Pain, Savages, Adam

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We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

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Pushing, Process, Insight

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I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

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Stuff, Caterpillars, Company

Source: www.roadrunner.travel

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

Jamie Hyneman

Imagine, Has Beens, Fortunate

Source: www.caranddriver.com

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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.

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Jobs, People, Upset

Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

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Home, People, Trying

Source: www.timeout.com

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I have to say for both of us [ with Adam Savage], this experience that we've been having here has changed us dramatically, and we've evolved since we've come on the scene with Mythbusters, because of what we've learned, and that, I think, is the biggest reward for us.

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Thinking, Savages, Rewards

Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

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Tv Shows, May, Tvs

Source: www.avclub.com

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From our point of view, we're just curious, we're poking around and having fun. If it's science, if it's accurate, if it's not accurate, we did the best we can to keep things clean and understandable, but we're just having fun, so sue us if we got something wrong.

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Fun, Views, Clean

Source: www.avclub.com

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"One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it."

- Jamie Hyneman,

www.caranddriver.com, added Jun 21, 2016

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