Bre Pettis Quotes

At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing it”iteration is a way of engineering.

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

One of the criticisms we get is, Does the world need more plastic crap? But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.

There was a tangible sense of potential as we packed them up. 'We're giving people 3-D printers that they can afford. What are they gonna make?

Done is the engine of more.

A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.

I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.

Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.

It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

We already live in the futureit's not like we're waiting for something to happenit's just a matter of doing it.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If youre into electronics, get an Arduino.