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.
ADAM SAVAGEThe idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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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 difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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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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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.
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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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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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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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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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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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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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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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