Top 34 Jamie Hyneman Quotes
#1. I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
Adam Savage
#2. I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we're quite aware of. Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
Adam Savage
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. 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
#7. God, I'm ready. I'm taking the limits off of You. I'm enlarging my vision. I may not see a way but I know You have a way. I declare I'm coming into a shift.
Joel Osteen
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. The idea that you can contribute is really important, especially for a kid.
Jamie Hyneman
#11. Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.
Jamie Hyneman
#12. 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
#13. The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one
H.G.Wells
#14. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#19. I've given you everything," she insisted again and again in her last days. "Yes," I agreed. She had, it was true. She did. She did. She'd come at us with maximum maternal velocity. She hadn't held back a thing, not a single lick of her love.
Cheryl Strayed
#20. I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.
Jamie Hyneman
#22. Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.
Jamie Hyneman
#23. 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
#24. And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honesty and realistically confronting loneliness is party of the healing process.
Bell Hooks
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. All of the experiments are really cool. Probably one of the better ones is "Running in the Rain." It depends on circumstances: how fast are you running, if there's wind, or any of the other things involved with the circumstances of running in the rain. That's a favorite, I suppose.
Jamie Hyneman
#29. Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.
Jamie Hyneman
#30. 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.
Jamie Hyneman
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.
Kim Alexis
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