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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

Topics: Children Day Deal Explain Frequently Fun Glory Go Got Growing Growing Up Home Much Never New New York Old Realize Realized Says School Shocked Snow Sort Stay Them Too Too Much Up Wake Wake Up Will World Years York You

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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. 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. The car is effectively a black box.

~Adam Savage

Topics: About Beginning Black Box Car Each Effectively Either Electrical Engine Fairly Fuel Like Mastering New Path Seems Shore Simple Start Straightforward System Teach Theory Your Yourself

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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

Topics: Animate Before Chocolate Complex Designing Done Earlier Effects Experiments Figuring Had How Movies Never Out Regularly Special Special Effects Things Were Whether Work

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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

~Adam Savage

Topics: How Lists Manage World

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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

Topics: Across Architectural Back Construction Detail Enough Fill Inches Industrial Just Light Magic Miniature Movie Needed Objects Professional Screen Sets Sometimes Specialty Stuff Were

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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.

~Adam Savage

Topics: Also Arranging Came Course Love Metric Name Organizing Point Them Tools Up Where I Love I Came

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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

Topics: Batman Belt Everything Form Idea Inside Kit Like Me Might Need Obsessed Portable Something Utility You

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I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.

~Adam Savage

Topics: Addict Been Cosmetic Costumes Ends Every Favorite How Job Just Lifelong Literally Long Made Making Movie Nearly Paint Projects Props Story Tells Thing Used Where

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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

Topics: Always Apparent Background Front Go Hidden Learned Make Never Process Rely Solution Some Technological Technology Try Trying Us

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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

Topics: Am Debate Discussion Edward Exactly International More Optimistic Pessimist Pessimistic Say See Should Snowden Than Think Where Would I Think I Am I See

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: July 15th, 1967

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