After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
ADAM SAVAGEIt’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’
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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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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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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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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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I’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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It’s a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It’s a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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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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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
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I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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