“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”
ADAM SAVAGEI’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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The car is effectively a black box.
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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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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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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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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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Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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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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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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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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