I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
ADAM SAVAGEDeadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
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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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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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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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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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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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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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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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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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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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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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