Jamie Hyneman Quotes

It's very difficult to think of new ways to blow things up!

Let's blow some stuff up.

There are times when we're testing an actual explosion, and then there are times when we blow stuff up just because we can.

I was all set to blow some crap up.

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.

I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.

I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.

Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.

Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up.

My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools.

Growing up in Arizona, I love fireworks, shooting off bottle rockets and M80s.

One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other reason is I was always looking for a visual language that goes beyond the boundary of nations, and so I found gunpowder.

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable.

When I was a kid, I had to try a lot of pyrotechnics just so people would know who I was.

There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

If you can't create, you destroy.

My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Destruction CAN be beautiful!

We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements. Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework I got to do as Havok, because a lot of that was as practical as you could get.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.