Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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.
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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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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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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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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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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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We are always works in progress.
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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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The car is effectively a black box.
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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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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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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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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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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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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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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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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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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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