It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
ADAM SAVAGEI’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.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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.
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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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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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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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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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The car is effectively a black box.
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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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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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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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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Bigger is always better.
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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It’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.
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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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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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Failure is always an option.
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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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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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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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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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