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.
ADAM SAVAGEI reject your reality and substitute my own.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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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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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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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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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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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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The car is effectively a black box.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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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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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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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 had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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