Bre Pettis Browse All Authors Top 35 quotes by Bre Pettis You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot. Bre Pettis your go you design 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 need think people thinking 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 possible printing decision people We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing. Bre Pettis sharing always printing people 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 your you quality world 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 sharing how cool internet 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 city good you beauty 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 best accidents car problem You learn so much by having customers and figuring out what they want and keeping them satisfied. Bre Pettis learn you satisfied want 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 consumer complex choice development Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem. Bre Pettis make feel problem people 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 me you education school 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 mission always creative people 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 focused community money world 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 accept dinner money want