I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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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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I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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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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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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Bigger is always better.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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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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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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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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Isn’t television glamourous?
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