Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
ADAM SAVAGELearning 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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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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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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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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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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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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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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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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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 am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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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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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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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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We are always works in progress.
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