Jamie Hyneman Quotes

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Jamie Hyneman

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : September 25, 1956

We got a lot of gay fan mail when the show first started. Something to do with being in San Francisco and being a big, burly guy with a big moustache. But we're both happily married. To women.

Jamie Hyneman

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

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My hair was falling out so I got in the habit of wearing a hat. And I didn't like baseball caps so I got a beret.

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I'm not an early adopter of technology unless I consider it absolutely indispensable.

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In my case you can pretty well figure that you can put a beret and a mustache on just about anything you want and it looks like me.

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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.

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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.

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A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.

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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.

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An indispensable tool is a pair of diagonal cutting Knipex pliers. There isn't any other hand tool of any other brand that stands up to it.

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It's millions of times more efficient to collect hydroelectric power through a dam than raindrop by raindrop.

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I'm a builder, first and foremost.

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I'm developing some new kinds of robotic firefighting vehicles to help with the massive forest fires we're dealing with in the West.

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After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.

Jamie Hyneman

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.

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I really didn't think this was going to be a success. We did the first three episodes and I said to Adam, 'I can't see this going anywhere. I've already used up all my urban legends.'

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Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.

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Over the years, we've developed a respect for each other in the roles that we play and we rely on that difference to recreate clarity for the audience.

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We've gotten quite creative with our use of explosives... It's almost like an art form, rather than just blowing crap up.

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I'm a little suspicious of using microwaves.

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