I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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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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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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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.
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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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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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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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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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There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
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I’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.
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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 have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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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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We are always works in progress.
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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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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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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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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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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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