The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
ADAM SAVAGEAnd there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
More Adam Savage Quotes
-
-
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 SAVAGE -
It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
ADAM SAVAGE -
We are always works in progress.
ADAM SAVAGE -
Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
ADAM SAVAGE -
In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
ADAM SAVAGE -
Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
ADAM SAVAGE -
Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
ADAM SAVAGE -
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.
ADAM SAVAGE -
Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
ADAM SAVAGE -
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.
ADAM SAVAGE -
I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
ADAM SAVAGE -
We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
ADAM SAVAGE -
The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
ADAM SAVAGE -
There’s this group online that I frequent.
ADAM SAVAGE -
Failure is always an option.
ADAM SAVAGE






