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Jamie Hyneman Biography

James Franklin Hyneman (born September 25, 1956) is an American special effects expert who is best known as the co-host of the television series MythBusters alongside Adam Savage. He is also the owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where MythBusters was filmed. He is known among Robot Wars devotees for his robot entry, Blendo, which, for a time, was deemed too dangerous for entry in the competition. He is one of the designers of the aerial robotic camera system Wavecam, used in sports and entertainment events.

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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.

Consequently, Encourage, Home, People, Stuff, Trying

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

Dead, Ray, Rays, Standing, Think, Thinking

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.

Careers, Creative, Fall, Simply, Things

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.

Fine, Look, Looks, Mean, Neighbors, Rockets

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.

Building, Elaborately, Gadgets, Make, Robot, Robots

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.

Caterpillars, Company, Make, Remote, Stuff, Times

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.

Larger, May, Things, Turn, Tv Shows, Tvs

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.

Challenges, Make, Special, Things, Thinking, Transcendental

If at first you don't succeed, C4

Firsts, Ifs, Succeed

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.

Ahead, Experiencing, Formal, Littles, Talking, Training

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.

Graduation, Inspirational, Long, Methodical, Pretty, Works

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed. While LEGOs are sold in kits in order to build specific things, there [are] very few people who leave their LEGOs in those kits. It very rapidly becomes an open system where you can build whatever you want. That's the one thing that signifies my entire life and my career. 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.

Key, Kids, Life, Powerful, Things, Thinking

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.

Circumstances, Favorite, Rain, Running, Wind

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.

Curiosity, Efficient, Littles, Relatively, Way, Whole

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

Engineering, Good, Math, Should Have, Understood

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

Contribute, Idea, Ideas, Important, Kid, Kids

If it turns out that we're doing proper science from time to time, it just happens to be that that's the most efficient way of doing it. We go into each of these stories with an open mind, and one of the great things about how the show works is that we're not approaching it from a doctoral point of view, we're just trying to see what happens.

Mind, Show, Stories, Time, Trying, Views

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.

Insight, Process, Pushing, See

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.

Change, Effects, Jobs, World, Years

We've found that the biggest thing as far as the danger is simply pressure. When we work with explosives, we've got bomb technicians there, bomb-squad guys who go into unknown situations all the time, and they've dealt with it safely.

Bomb, Bombs, Found, Guy, Simply, Squad

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