That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
ADAM SAVAGEThe best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
More Adam Savage Quotes
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There is no dignity in television.
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Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
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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 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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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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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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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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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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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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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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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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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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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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