The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
ADAM SAVAGEGetting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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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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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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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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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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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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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
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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 fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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