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Top 25 Jamie Hyneman Quotes (2025 Update)

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “I don’t think our death ray is working. I’m standing right in it, and I’m not dead yet.”

1. “I don’t think our death ray is working. I’m standing right in it, and I’m not dead yet.”

— Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “Duct tape is not a perfect solution to anything. But with a little creativity, in a pinch, it’s an adequate solution to just about everything.”

2. “Duct tape is not a perfect solution to anything. But with a little creativity, in a pinch, it’s an adequate solution to just about everything.”

— Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “If at first you don’t succeed, C4.”

3. “If at first you don’t succeed, C4.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “When in doubt, C4!”

4. “When in doubt, C4!”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “Science isn’t just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It’s something that everybody can do.”

5. “Science isn’t just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It’s something that everybody can do.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.”

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

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “From our point of view, we’re just curious, we’re poking around and having fun. If it’s science, if it’s accurate, if it’s not accurate, we did the best we can to keep things clean and understandable, but we’re just having fun, so sue us if we got something wrong.”

7. “From our point of view, we’re just curious, we’re poking around and having fun. If it’s science, if it’s accurate, if it’s not accurate, we did the best we can to keep things clean and understandable, but we’re just having fun, so sue us if we got something wrong.”

— Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “I’ve learned that I can pretty much do anything I’ve wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.”

8. “I’ve learned that I can pretty much do anything I’ve wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.”

— Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “We don’t have formal training, that makes what we’re experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.”

9. “We don’t have formal training, that makes what we’re experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.”

— Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “I always telling people to “not try this at home,” because most of what we do on MythBusters is really dangerous. Consequently, we can’t encourage people to try that stuff.”

11. “I always telling people to “not try this at home,” because most of what we do on MythBusters is really dangerous. Consequently, we can’t encourage people to try that stuff.”

— Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “Quack, damn you!”

13. “Quack, damn you!”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “There are a lot of things that I’d do differently. But I can’t imagine being more fortunate than I have been.”

14. “There are a lot of things that I’d do differently. But I can’t imagine being more fortunate than I have been.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources – it’s a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so.”

16. “We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources – it’s a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so.”

— Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.”

17. “I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.”

— Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “We should point out that if we feel like we’ve upset somebody and they’re vitriolic, if people are actively pursuing some sort of complaint, then we’ve done our job.”

18. “We should point out that if we feel like we’ve upset somebody and they’re vitriolic, if people are actively pursuing some sort of complaint, then we’ve done our job.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “Actually I’m pretty adamant about, you know, the whole God thing and it seems that skeptics are by and large atheists or something approaching that, which I strongly identify with. So it turned out to be a good thing and I have become enthusiastically part of it.”

19. “Actually I’m pretty adamant about, you know, the whole God thing and it seems that skeptics are by and large atheists or something approaching that, which I strongly identify with. So it turned out to be a good thing and I have become enthusiastically part of it.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “There’s no director who wants to portray cheese puffs with a certain color that’s going to make or break the commercial, in his opinion. We don’t have to do that, so I don’t miss it at all, really.”

20. “There’s no director who wants to portray cheese puffs with a certain color that’s going to make or break the commercial, in his opinion. We don’t have to do that, so I don’t miss it at all, really.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “One of our neighbors is a salami distributor, and they pretty well – I mean, we used their salami to make a rocket engine out of. They just look at us and they’re amused, they’re fine with it.”

21. “One of our neighbors is a salami distributor, and they pretty well – I mean, we used their salami to make a rocket engine out of. They just look at us and they’re amused, they’re fine with it.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “All of the experiments are really cool. Probably one of the better ones is “Running in the Rain.” It depends on circumstances: how fast are you running, if there’s wind, or any of the other things involved with the circumstances of running in the rain. That’s a favorite, I suppose.”

22. “All of the experiments are really cool. Probably one of the better ones is “Running in the Rain.” It depends on circumstances: how fast are you running, if there’s wind, or any of the other things involved with the circumstances of running in the rain. That’s a favorite, I suppose.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “There are a lot of times when we can just time something and say “busted” or “confirmed” or whatever, instead of building a robot or some gadget to make it happen more elaborately. In those cases, we’re simply enjoying ourselves.”

23. “There are a lot of times when we can just time something and say “busted” or “confirmed” or whatever, instead of building a robot or some gadget to make it happen more elaborately. In those cases, we’re simply enjoying ourselves.”

— Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.”

24. “Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “We’re constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It’s an insight into things that you don’t normally see.”

25. “We’re constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It’s an insight into things that you don’t normally see.”

— Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Quote: “The idea that you can contribute is really important, especially for a kid.”

26. “The idea that you can contribute is really important, especially for a kid.”

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Jamie Hyneman Quote: “Dealing with effects, as a job it’s great, but with Mythbusters, the stuff we’ve seen, the stuff we’ve absorbed over the years, has just been fantastic, and I wouldn’t change it for the world.”

27. “Dealing with effects, as a job it’s great, but with Mythbusters, the stuff we’ve seen, the stuff we’ve absorbed over the years, has just been fantastic, and I wouldn’t change it for the world.”

— Jamie Hyneman

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