Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
ADAM SAVAGEYou will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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 wouldn’t say jamie is an evil genius. I’m not sure he’s evil and I’m not sure he’s a genius.
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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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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“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”
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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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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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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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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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When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
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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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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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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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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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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day.
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