Am I missing an eyebrow?
ADAM SAVAGE“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
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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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“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”
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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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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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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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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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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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Bigger is always better.
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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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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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Isn’t television glamourous?
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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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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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