There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
ADAM SAVAGEI’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.
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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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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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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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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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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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This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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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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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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And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day.
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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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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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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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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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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Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences.
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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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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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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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