Dealing with effects, as a job it's great, but with Mythbusters, the stuff we've seen, the stuff we've absorbed over the years, has just been fantastic, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

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

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.

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.

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

If at first you don't succeed, C4

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.

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.

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

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

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.

We're all here for a spell

It takes few words to tell the truth.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

Great books conserve time.

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

And there’s one more thing. (Gabriel) Neutering? (Zeke)

A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and bid us shut them to the stars

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

If we habitually focus on how to improve things that are already great, can you see how this spirit can transform ourselves, our organizations, families and communities?