Jamie Hyneman Quotes

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Jamie Hyneman

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : September 25, 1956

In my case, the only thing to note is if I show up at home at an unusual time, it's cause for raising my wife's blood pressure because it only happens if... usually that involves stitches.

Jamie Hyneman

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

Jamie Hyneman

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

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

Jamie Hyneman

At its core, what we do in 'MythBusters' is turn science into an adventure.

Jamie Hyneman

Children are just little scientists.

Jamie Hyneman

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

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

Jamie Hyneman

I have to say that we're not actors, at least on 'Mythbusters' or any of the other television projects that we've done.

Jamie Hyneman

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

Jamie Hyneman

It's the results that are surprising, even results where we've totally screwed up, and then learned something in the process, are the ones that stand out. Having our preconceptions overturned is actually thrilling for us.

Jamie Hyneman

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

Jamie Hyneman

One of the main reasons for success on the show is that we're not a demonstration show. We're an experimentation show.

Jamie Hyneman

If you get the question right, if you really define it, then the answers are just sitting there waiting for you. And it's something a little different than people usually think.

Jamie Hyneman

Occasionally, you know, a myth is specific with a certain model of car, you know, like a Corvette or whatever. And so we end up spending some cash on those.

Jamie Hyneman

Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.

Jamie Hyneman

Adam's impulsive and energetic, and I'm calm and methodical.

Jamie Hyneman

We're fond of pointing out that we've known each other for over 25 years now and not once sat down alone to have dinner together. We pretty much avoid spending whatever time together that we can.

Jamie Hyneman

As far as I'm concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can't think of anything I'd rather see happen.

Jamie Hyneman

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