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Bre Pettis Quotes

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

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

Bre Pettis
Ideas, People, Get Real

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.

Bre Pettis
Together, Stuff, Electronics

Done is the engine of more.

Bre Pettis
Accomplishment, Done, Engines
Bre Pettis, Anna Kaziunas France, Jay Shergill (2012). “Getting Started with MakerBot”, p.184, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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.

Bre Pettis
Knowing, Pretending, Accepting
Bre Pettis, Anna Kaziunas France, Jay Shergill (2012). “Getting Started with MakerBot”, p.184, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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

Bre Pettis
Waiting, Matter, Waiting For Something

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

Bre Pettis
Kids, Identity

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

Bre Pettis
Technology, Passing, Passings

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?

Bre Pettis
People, Giving, Tangible

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

Bre Pettis
People, Wonderful, Wonderful Things

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
Design, Empowering, Community

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

Bre Pettis
Target, Machines, Jewelry

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.

Bre Pettis
Engineering, Way, Firsts

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