The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
ADAM SAVAGEThere are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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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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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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We are always works in progress.
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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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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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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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 learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
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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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These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.
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I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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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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