That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
ADAM SAVAGEMostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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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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“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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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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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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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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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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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 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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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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