Bre Pettis Quotes

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

  Bre Pettis

  Ideas, People, Get Real

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• 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."

  5 Copy quote

• 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."

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Bre Pettis

  Kids, Identity

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

  Bre Pettis

  Target, Machines, Jewelry

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin