Remember kids, I have life insurance.
ADAM SAVAGEThe skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.
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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 had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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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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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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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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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 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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If 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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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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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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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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