I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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The car is effectively a black box.
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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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We are always works in progress.
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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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Bigger is always better.
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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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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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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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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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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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