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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More Adam Savage Quotes
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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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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.
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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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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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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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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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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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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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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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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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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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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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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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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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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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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