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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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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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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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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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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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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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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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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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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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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Isn’t television glamourous?
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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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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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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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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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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There 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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