Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
ADAM SAVAGEIf I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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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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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love 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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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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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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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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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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Learning 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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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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