Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
ADAM SAVAGEWe don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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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.
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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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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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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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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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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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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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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it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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