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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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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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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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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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.
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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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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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