I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
ADAM SAVAGEThe idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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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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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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You know, it’s the best job I’ve ever had, on its worst day it’s better than anything else, but it’s a huge amount of responsibility
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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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The car is effectively a black box.
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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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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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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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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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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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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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