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 think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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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 think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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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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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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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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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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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
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We are always works in progress.
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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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