Quotes By Adam Savage

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

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.

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.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

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.

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.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

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.

I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!

Isn't television glamourous?

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

I just had one of those "what the hell are we doing" moments.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

That was cool and that sucked all at the same time.

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.

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.

We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!

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.

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.

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.

Let's blow some stuff up.

Failure is always an option.

Bigger is always better.

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!