Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
ADAM SAVAGEThe difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”
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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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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
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We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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Bigger is always better.
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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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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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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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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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 one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
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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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I’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
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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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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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