There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
ADAM SAVAGELet’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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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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The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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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 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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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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