Quotes by Jamie Hyneman - Page 3

Well, one of the myths early on that I think is one of the funnier things we've done is airline toilet seats. That one was about a large woman that sat down on a seat in an airline and flushed the toilet and got stuck on it.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Airline
Seat
Funnier
Toilet
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When I'm problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that's like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Problem Solving
Effectively
Qualities
Smells
Textures
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There are a lot of times when we can just time something and say "busted" or "confirmed" or whatever, instead of building a robot or some gadget to make it happen more elaborately. In those cases, we're simply enjoying ourselves.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Building
Gadgets
Robots
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I love Tim Curry as the Devil in 'Legend;' the prosthetics that are on him are so over the top sensually evil, and Tim takes full advantage, is just oozing with the role. The makeup and prosthetics, and his character are seamless.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Advantage
Curry
Evil
Makeup
Seamless
Legend
Full Advantage
Tim
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I think it's probably safe to say that continuing our onscreen relationship in front of the camera is probably not happening. I expect Adam may well pursue things in front of the camera, but I'm most likely not. It's not who I am.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Adam
Pursue
Onscreen
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We've found that the biggest thing as far as the danger is simply pressure.When we work with explosives, we've got bomb technicians there, bomb-squad guys who go into unknown situations all the time, and they've dealt with it safely.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Bombs
Guy
Squad
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If you ever decide to build a boat out of wet newspaper, it's important to remember to lay down the sheets like shingles on a house: One issue at a time, starting at the bow and moving aft, so water flows over the layers, not under them.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Boat
House
Moving
Sheets
Starting
Water
Wet
Build
Bow
Flows
Issue
Lay
Newspaper
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Duct tape is like that. It's a building block. You can make a rope out of it, you can make a cloth out of it. And because it sticks to stuff it's even more powerful. It's like an uber-material because of the versatility of a sticky fiber.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Block
Fiber
Rope
Sticks
Tape
Versatility
Building Block
Cloth
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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 / Host
Effects
Involved
Routine
Special Effects
Dynamic
Solving
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I never dreamed we would be on television at all, much less for such a long time and with so much praise for keeping a thought provoking show on the air. And best of all, we were able to do what we do and still have all our fingers and toes.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Fingers
Praise
Provoking
Toes
Best Time Long
Dreamed
Such A Long Time
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I found that cardiovascular exercise boosts my mental performance. If I have a problem to solve, like an engineering one, and I get on a treadmill, then time disappears; all I know is an hour later I'm all sweaty and the problem has been solved.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Boost
Cardiovascular
Engineering
Solve
Disappears
Treadmill
Sweaty
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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.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Littles
Talking
Training
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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.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Atheist
Good Things
Skeptic
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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.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Clean
Fun
Views
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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.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Rewards
Savages
Thinking
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As it turns out, one of the biggest choices we have doing the show is deciding the tangents we are allowed to take, the stuff that we see along the way. We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Excuse
Deciding
Explore
Just Kind
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Is there some situation where square wheels would be better than round wheels? Sure! A round wheel has a pressure point directly under the tire. A square wheel's corners are going to bite and propel you forward. The square wheel could be superior on snow or mud or sand.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Corners
Mud
Sand
Snow
Tire
Wheels
Bite
Directly
Round
Propel
Square
Superior
Wheel
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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 / Host
Running
Rain
Really Cool
Wind
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We're these guys that are very tech-savvy, so people tend to expect us to say our favorite gadgets are thing like the latest iPhone or the latest app or something like that. Adam is pretty much like that. As far as myself, I'm the kind of guy that tends to go for the absolute simplest things.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Adam
Gadgets
Iphone
Simplest
Absolute
App
Latest
Simplest Things
Tends
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There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Religion
Amazing
Curiosity
Rational
Selective
Skeptical
Within
Aspects
Scientists
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We've done a zombie episode - only one - and the way we look at it as is we understand that there probably aren't zombies out there for real, but there's a lot of interesting stuff we can test about them. We've tested how bodies of zombies pressing against a gate, would they push it through and things like that.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Tested
Zombie
Bodies
Episode
Gate
Pressing
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I pretty much learned not to fight with it a long time ago and let it do what it likes to do. Otherwise, my shaving techniques are pretty mundane. I tend to do it in the shower because it makes the bristles soft and keeps the razor from building up the hairs inside it, and the mustache is dealt with with scissors.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Likes
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Mundane
Mustache
Scissors
Shaving
Time Fight Long
Dealt
Hairs
Otherwise
Razor
Shower
Soft
Techniques
Tend
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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.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Careers
Creative
Fall
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If it turns out that we're doing proper science from time to time, it just happens to be that that's the most efficient way of doing it. We go into each of these stories with an open mind, and one of the great things about how the show works is that we're not approaching it from a doctoral point of view, we're just trying to see what happens.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Mind
Trying
Views
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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.
Jamie Hyneman / Host
Kids
Powerful
Thinking
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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 / Host
Axes
Two
Wheels
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