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.
ADAM SAVAGEThat’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day.
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
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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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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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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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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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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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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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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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