The Coolest Toys Don't Have To Be

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.

Bigger Is Always Better.

Growing Up In New York, I Was Sort Of Shocked When I Realized That My Children Are Californians. They Are 14 Years Old, And I Explain To Them Frequently That They Will Never Realize The Glory Of A Snow Day. You Wake Up And The World Says, 'oops, It's Too Much Fun To Go To School, You've Got To Stay Home And Deal With The Snow!'

I Am Incrementally A Pessimist, But I See The International Debate That Edward Snowden Has Engendered, And I Think This Is Exactly Where The Discussion Should Be. So, I Would Say I'm More Optimistic Than Pessimistic.

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.