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.
ADAM SAVAGEI 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.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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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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it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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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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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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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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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
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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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I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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