Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
ADAM SAVAGEI had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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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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The car is effectively a black box.
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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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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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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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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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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There is no dignity in television.
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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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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’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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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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Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”
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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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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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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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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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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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