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 SAVAGEThere is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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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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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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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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I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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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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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 wouldn’t say jamie is an evil genius. I’m not sure he’s evil and I’m not sure he’s a genius.
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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’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”
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