That’s the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you. – Bre Pettis
Most people don’t feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem. – Bre Pettis
We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible. – Bre Pettis
Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That’s how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo. – Bre Pettis
When people have a MakerBot, they have a different mindset from everybody else who grew up as a consumer. Instead of thinking, ‘I need to go buy that,’ they first think, ‘Do I need to go buy that? I could just MakerBot that.’ – Bre Pettis
We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing. – Bre Pettis
My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me. – Bre Pettis
We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn’t accept money from anybody we didn’t want to have dinner with. – Bre Pettis
When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot. – Bre Pettis
While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught. – Bre Pettis
I feel like I’ve lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once. – Bre Pettis
I’ve watched with amazement as Local Motors has pioneered a co-creation and micro-manufacturing model that has democratized the development and production of complex machines, effectively transforming consumer choice from supply-driven to demand-driven. – Bre Pettis
We’re on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more – what used to take months, now takes hours. – Bre Pettis
My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something. – Bre Pettis
For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy. – Bre Pettis
We got involved with the RepRap Project, a community focused on making 3-D printers that could make copies of themselves and help create a world without money. We started making prototypes. – Bre Pettis
Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If you’re into electronics, get an Arduino. – Bre Pettis
My parents had a software company making children’s software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers. – Bre Pettis
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. – Bre Pettis
What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren’t passing the technology forward. – Bre Pettis
You learn so much by having customers and figuring out what they want and keeping them satisfied. – Bre Pettis
The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents… Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement. – Bre Pettis
