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" My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things. "
Adam Savage
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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. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done. "
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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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" Lists are how I parse and manage the world. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind! "
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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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" Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. 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. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip. "
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" 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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Fix
Good
" I reject your reality and substitute my own. "
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" I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. 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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" 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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" Am I about to feel really, really stupid? "
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" Bigger is always better. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Remember kids, I have life insurance. "
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" Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things. "
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" Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love. "
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" 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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