That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
ADAM SAVAGEWe’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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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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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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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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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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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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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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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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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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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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The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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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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Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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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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Bigger is always better.
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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 would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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