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.
ADAM SAVAGEMostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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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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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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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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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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Isn’t television glamourous?
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We are always works in progress.
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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
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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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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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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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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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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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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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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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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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