From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
ADAM SAVAGEWe chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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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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Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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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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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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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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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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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.
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
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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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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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