When I figured that I could do anything if I was simply methodical about it. I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be dynamic. I came up with special effects.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

If at first you don't succeed, C4

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you - because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable.