I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
ADAM SAVAGEThe coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.
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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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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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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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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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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 sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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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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When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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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’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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