Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
ADAM SAVAGEI learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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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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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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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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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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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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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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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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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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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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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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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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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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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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