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Adam Savage
American
Entertainer
Born:
Jul 15
,
1967
Am
Me
Think
Work
World
You
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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.
Adam Savage
Beautiful
History
Most Beautiful
Comedy
Birth
State
Giant
Eastern
Some
New
Most
Erie
Canal
American
York
New York
New York State
Much
Landscape
Stand-Up Comedy
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.
Adam Savage
Attitude
Creative
World
Looking
Thinking
Mindset
Way
Critical
Critical Thinking
About
Mental
Mental Attitude
Sort
Curiosity
Curious
Playful
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.
Adam Savage
You
Care
Think
Consequences
Defining
Take
Take Care
Adulthood
Lifting
Nobody
Well
Going
Heavy
While
Realization
Moments
Suffer
Here
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.
Adam Savage
You
Mind
Long
Remove
Thinking
Too
Variables
More
Take
Outside
Like
Likely
Deadline
Deadlines
Box
Materials
Refine
Exotic
Closer
Processes
Start
That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.
Adam Savage
Myself
Me
Science
Hurting
Minutes
Like
Then
Show
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.
Adam Savage
Work
Light
Finally
Magic
Like
Industrial
Felt
Got
Up
Going
Heaven
Dying
Movies
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
Adam Savage
Learning
Geek
About
Being
Things
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.
Adam Savage
Rest
Skin
British Museum
Complete
Collection
Fact
Had
Head
Feet
Until
Off
Fit
Up
Burned
Century
Cut
Zeal
Actually
Specimen
British
Museum
Bonfire
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.
Adam Savage
Me
Travel
People
Group
Prop
About
Online
Props
Like
Make
Trade
Frequent
Replica
Just
Movie
Information
Crazies
Forum
Who
Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. You wake up and the world says, 'Oops, it's too much fun to go to school, you've got to stay home and deal with the snow!'
Adam Savage
Day
Home
You
World
School
Wake Up
Old
Too Much
Will
Too
Says
Stay
Never
New
Californians
Sort
Deal
Glory
Frequently
Got
Go
Years
Wake
Up
Shocked
Snow
York
New York
Children
Explain
Them
Realize
Realized
Much
Fun
Growing
Growing Up
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.
Adam Savage
Work
Before
Complex
Out
Animate
Never
Had
How
Were
Effects
Done
Experiments
Whether
Movies
Chocolate
Regularly
Special
Special Effects
Figuring
Things
Earlier
Designing
Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
Adam Savage
World
Parse
How
Manage
Lists
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.
Adam Savage
Construction
Sometimes
Light
Sets
Enough
Back
Miniature
Detail
Magic
Architectural
Objects
Stuff
Industrial
Were
Just
Screen
Movie
Across
Inches
Professional
Fill
Specialty
Needed
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.
Adam Savage
Me
You
Everything
Batman
Inside
Something
Kit
Idea
Obsessed
Like
Form
Might
Utility
Portable
Need
Belt
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.
Adam Savage
Technology
Try
Analogue
Background
Hidden
Solution
Some
Rely
Never
Make
Learned
Always
Go
Trying
Front
Process
Us
Apparent
Technological
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.
Adam Savage
Debate
Pessimist
Think
Say
Would
Exactly
See
More
Am
Edward
Optimistic
Than
Discussion
Snowden
Where
Should
Pessimistic
International
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.
Adam Savage
Strength
Architecture
Internet
Important
Framework
Lies
Ability
Voices
Lifetime
Allow
Open
Advancement
Most
Heard
The Most Important
Where
Technological
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.
Adam Savage
Age
Key
Kid
Could
Part
Powerful
Powerful Thing
Make
Learned
Were
Very
Wanted
Realize
Thing
Things
Early
Early Age
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.
Adam Savage
God
Family
Religion
Generation
Trend
Church
Practical
Continue
Children
Use
Actually
Fourth
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.
Adam Savage
Life
Myself
My Life
Appreciating
Tell
Has-Been
About
Objects
Diving
Like
Also
Obtaining
Said
Making
Been
Being
Stories
Again
Them
Fascinated
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.
Adam Savage
Heart
People
Community
Think
Our
Way
Our People
Embraced
Small
Absolutely
Like
Dear
Skeptical
Us
Reason
Near
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.
Adam Savage
You
Yourself
Sometimes
Way
Only
Fact
Bought
Toys
Make
Built
Exist
In Fact
Them
Coolest
Ever
I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!
Adam Savage
Good
Good Ideas
Some
Ideas
How
Least
Very
Fix
Remember kids, I have life insurance.
Adam Savage
Life
Remember
Kids
Life Insurance
Insurance
Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
Adam Savage
Back
Out
Some
Gotta
Rocket
Fridge
Get
Fuel
Stand
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.
Adam Savage
Day
Religion
You
Reality
Every Day
Worth
Every
Universe
Hidden
Idea
Clinging
Existence
Discovering
Just
Ordered
Orders
Lovely
Elegant
Need
Appreciate
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