I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.

I find it's too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we're being well-defended, of exactly what we're doing. When someone tells us something we're doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can't read them.

Failure is always an option.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.