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.
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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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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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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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’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.
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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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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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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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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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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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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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