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.
ADAM SAVAGEThe 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.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
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I’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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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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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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One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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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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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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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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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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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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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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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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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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It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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