It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
ADAM SAVAGEWe cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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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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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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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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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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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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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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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.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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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.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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