Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
ADAM SAVAGEI 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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This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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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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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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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.
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That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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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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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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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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It’s a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It’s a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
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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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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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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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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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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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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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