We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
ADAM SAVAGEAnd there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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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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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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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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We are always works in progress.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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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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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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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
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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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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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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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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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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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You know, it’s the best job I’ve ever had, on its worst day it’s better than anything else, but it’s a huge amount of responsibility
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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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