Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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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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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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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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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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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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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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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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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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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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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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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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I’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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Bigger is always better.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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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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Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
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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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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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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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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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Isn’t television glamourous?
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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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