From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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.
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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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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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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 car is effectively a black box.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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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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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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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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The 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.
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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