Bre Pettis

Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things…

— Bre Pettis

Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world.

— Bre Pettis

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

— Bre Pettis

You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

— 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…

— Bre Pettis

We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.

— Bre Pettis

That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to…

— Bre Pettis

I like to make things. It's been part of my identity since I was a kid.

— Bre Pettis

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

— Bre Pettis

Done is the engine of more.

— 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,…

— Bre Pettis

The people who are getting 3-D printers at home are pioneers, kind of like the people who bought Apple IIs in 1981.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Bre Pettis

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

— Bre Pettis

My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make…

— Bre Pettis

If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want…

— Bre Pettis

Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.

— 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…

— Bre Pettis

We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing…

— Bre Pettis

While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the…

— Bre Pettis

One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic…

— 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

For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we…

— Bre Pettis

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

— Bre Pettis