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 SAVAGEPrayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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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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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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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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Bigger is always better.
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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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It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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The car is effectively a black box.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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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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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
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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 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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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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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’
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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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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.
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