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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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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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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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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I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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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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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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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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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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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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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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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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