Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
ADAM SAVAGEMy advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
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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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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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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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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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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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