A biography for Jamie Hynemanhasn’t been written yet.
“We seriously irritate each other and don't want to spend any time together. And yet we have a profound respect for the partnership. We're like a couple of dogs with a rag.”
“Children are just little scientists.”
“There are times when we're testing an actual explosion, and then there are times when we blow stuff up just because we can.”
“I think when you do stuff in a computer people tend to dismiss it. It also allows you to make a lot of stuff totally not connected with reality because you're not limited by any kind of reality.”
“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.”
“If I had one word to describe how I feel at never having to work with co-host Adam Savage again it'd be relief.”
“We're not too out there to educate people about any specific thing necessarily so much as we are to encourage critical and scientific thinking.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.”
“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.”
“There are things that you would think were not possible, and yet they are.”
“I grew up on an apple orchard with a lot of surrounding wooded area, and I ran everywhere. I was outside all the time climbing trees.”
“Now that I'm not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.”
“You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.”
“We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.”
“I'm a builder, first and foremost.”
“For four years, I worked as one of the general shop crew on movies like 'Naked Lunch' and 'Arachnophobia.' I made lots of bugs.”
“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.”
“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.”