I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
ADAM SAVAGEOf 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.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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Failure is always an option.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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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!’
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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”
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“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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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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