My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
ADAM SAVAGEI’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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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’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”
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The car is effectively a black box.
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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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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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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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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.
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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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You know, it’s the best job I’ve ever had, on its worst day it’s better than anything else, but it’s a huge amount of responsibility
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,
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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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