It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
ADAM SAVAGEOf 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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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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There is no dignity in television.
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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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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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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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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You know, it’s the best job I’ve ever had, on its worst day it’s better than anything else, but it’s a huge amount of responsibility
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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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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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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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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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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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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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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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 think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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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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Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”
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