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.
ADAM SAVAGEWhether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.
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Bigger is always better.
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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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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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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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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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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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