And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
ADAM SAVAGEThe only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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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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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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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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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 closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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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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I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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It’s a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It’s a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
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I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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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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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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