I reject your reality and substitute my own.
ADAM SAVAGESo 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.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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We are always works in progress.
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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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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We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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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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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’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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