I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
ADAM SAVAGEI 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.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Failure is always an option.
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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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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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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 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 think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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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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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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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
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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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We are always works in progress.
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