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

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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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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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There is no dignity in television.

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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

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We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.

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Bad spellers of the world untie!

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

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These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we're doing, and they consistently thank us. "I agree your results aren't always right," they'll say, "but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it's an interesting process because it's messy, and no other shows show that."

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I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we're quite aware of. Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.

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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

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We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.

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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

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Am I missing an eyebrow?

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My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

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I reject your reality and substitute my own.

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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

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