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.
ADAM SAVAGEWe’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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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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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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We are always works in progress.
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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
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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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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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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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Failure is always an option.
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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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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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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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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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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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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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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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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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One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.
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