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I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

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I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!

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There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

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

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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

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If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't gonna hurt much more.

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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul

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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

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I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

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Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters. You know, it's the best job I've ever had, on its worst day it's better than anything else, but it's a huge amount of responsibility, and there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else's drawing sounds like going back to heaven.

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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.

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Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

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