Jamie Hyneman famous quotes

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Inspirational #Graduation #Long

If at first you don't succeed, C4
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Firsts #Succeed

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

#Thinking #Rays #Standing

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

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#People #Different #Sometimes

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

#Fun #Thought Provoking #Attention

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Good Day

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Talking #Training #Littles

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Atheist #Good Things #Skeptic

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Mean #Looks #Rockets

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

#Kids #Ideas #Important

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Fall #Careers #Creative

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Math #Engineering #Should Have

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Curiosity #Littles #Way

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Pushing #Process #Insight

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Stuff #Caterpillars #Company

I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Pain #Savages #Adam

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Jobs #People #Upset

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Home #People #Trying

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Thinking #Savages #Rewards

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Tv Shows #May #Tvs

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.
-- Jamie Hyneman

#Fun #Views #Clean