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.
ADAM SAVAGEI find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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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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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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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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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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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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I’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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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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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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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 would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
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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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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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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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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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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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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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