The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.
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.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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There is no dignity in television.
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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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We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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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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The car is effectively a black box.
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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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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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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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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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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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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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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