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.
ADAM SAVAGELet’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
More Adam Savage Quotes
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That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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I’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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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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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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Of 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.
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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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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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