Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
ADAM SAVAGEJamie’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.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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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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Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
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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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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.
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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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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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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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