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.

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

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.

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.

I don't know what tomorrow brings, but I strongly believe that my mind is fully capable of dealing with whatever it shows up with.

I am most scared of being bored

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."

The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.