In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
ADAM SAVAGEI wouldn’t say jamie is an evil genius. I’m not sure he’s evil and I’m not sure he’s a genius.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.
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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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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.
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There is no dignity in television.
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I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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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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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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