I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
ADAM SAVAGEAnd 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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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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They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day.
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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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 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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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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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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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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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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