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.
ADAM SAVAGEAfter 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.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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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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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’
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sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
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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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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.
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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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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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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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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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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
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I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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