I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.
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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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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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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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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me
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I wouldn’t say jamie is an evil genius. I’m not sure he’s evil and I’m not sure he’s a genius.
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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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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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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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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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