That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
ADAM SAVAGEIn theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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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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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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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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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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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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“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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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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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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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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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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We are always works in progress.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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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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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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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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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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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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