Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
ADAM SAVAGEYou will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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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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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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We are always works in progress.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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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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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’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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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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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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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
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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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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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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 may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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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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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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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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