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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More Adam Savage Quotes
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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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Failure is always an option.
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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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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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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day.
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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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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It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
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The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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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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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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