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 SAVAGEThere’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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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 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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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.
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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 learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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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.
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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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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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The car is effectively a black box.
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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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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