A biography for Jamie Hynemanhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.”
“I think 'MythBusters' is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.”
“When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.”
“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.”
“We are seeing robotics creep into all areas and become accessible, where it used to be something tedious that only the most persistent people could access.”
“I'm not an early adopter of technology unless I consider it absolutely indispensable.”
“I have to say that we're not actors, at least on 'Mythbusters' or any of the other television projects that we've done.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There are a couple of scenes in David Lynch's 'Dune' that I loved - again, small things but inspired and elegantly done.”
“I'm developing some new kinds of robotic firefighting vehicles to help with the massive forest fires we're dealing with in the West.”
“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.”
“Adam's impulsive and energetic, and I'm calm and methodical.”
“On occasion, we at 'MythBusters' come across stories we want to test that require using a pig carcass to simulate human physiology.”