Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
ADAM SAVAGEI believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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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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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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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.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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