Bre Pettis Browse All Authors Quotes From Bre Pettis You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them. Bre Pettis get-real people ideas 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 pretending accepting knowing I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid. Bre Pettis identity kids Done is the engine of more. Bre Pettis engines accomplishment done It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward. Bre Pettis passings passing technology 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 tangible giving people 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 wonderful-things wonderful people 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 empowering design community Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines. Bre Pettis jewelry target machines 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 electronics together stuff 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 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-for-something matter waiting We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers. Bre Pettis anything more just people 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 industrial-revolution you revolution Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world. Bre Pettis impact positive people world 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 me you sad technology 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 glow me remember father 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 parents computers colors children 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 she whatever taught college 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 best learning mistake life
