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.
ADAM SAVAGEI just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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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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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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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.
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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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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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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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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
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We are always works in progress.
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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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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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
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I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
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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 find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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