"It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way."

"I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood."

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress."

"Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult."

"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"

"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."

"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill."

"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"

"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."

"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all."

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"In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test."

"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."

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

"Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box."

"Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash."

"I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences."

"I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole."

"The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!"

"There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props."

"I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!"

"Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph."

"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"

"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."

"How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart."

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

"Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away."

"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."

"The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone."

"Man can embody truth bet he cannot know it."

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

"Am I about to feel really, really stupid?"

"We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos."

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

"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."

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

"That's our job - to strap rockets onto everything."

"I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years."

"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."

"I would have to say that looked like it hurt."

"I believe that inside every tool is a hammer."

"It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''"

"Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering"

"The friends that have it I do wrongWhen ever I remake a song,Should know what issue is at stake:It is myself that I remake."

"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

"Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that"

"In Imagination only we find a Human Faculty that touches nature at one side, and spirit on the other. Imagination may be described as that which is sent bringing spirit to nature, entering into nature, and seemingly losing its spirit, that nature being revealed as symbol may lose the power to delude."

"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."