In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
ADAM SAVAGETeach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.
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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 believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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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 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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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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Bigger is always better.
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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.
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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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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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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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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