Top 90 Adam Savage Quotes
#1. New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. 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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#2. Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
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#3. Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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#4. The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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#5. We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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#6. The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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#8. It's a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It's a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
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#10. The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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#11. My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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#12. Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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#13. We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!
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#14. I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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#16. Jamie doesn't like to do anything hastily, and I like to do everything incredibly hastily. So therein you have the dichotomy of our patterns.
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#17. 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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#18. Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, 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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#19. Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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#20. The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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#22. I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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#23. Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.
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#24. I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.
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#25. Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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#27. How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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#28. I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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#29. The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.
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#30. Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!
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#31. My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
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#32. Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.
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#33. We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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#34. We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
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#35. Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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#36. Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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#37. The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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#38. I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
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#40. 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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#41. I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.
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#43. We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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#44. 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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#45. We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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#46. Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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#47. That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.
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#49. There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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#50. Jack of all trades, master of none, though often better than a master of one.
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#51. I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
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#52. I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. 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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#53. The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you know we're always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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#54. 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. When someone tells us something we're doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can't read them.
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#55. I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.
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#56. Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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#57. Sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
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#58. I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012)
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#59. 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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#60. I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - 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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#61. My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on a military base.
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#62. Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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#63. That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!
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#64. I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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#65. I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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#66. That's our job - to strap rockets onto everything.
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#67. 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. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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#68. I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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#69. I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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#70. I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. 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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#71. I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun ... Not unless I have to!
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#72. I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we're quite aware of. Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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#73. The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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#74. It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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#75. I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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#79. The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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#80. 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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#81. After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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#82. I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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#83. I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.
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#84. There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
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#85. I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
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#86. There's this group online that I frequent. 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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#87. Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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#88. I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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#89. Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. 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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#90. I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!
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