You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
ADAM SAVAGEFrom earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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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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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
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Teach 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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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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It’s a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It’s a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
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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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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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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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