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 More Quotes by Bre Pettis More Quotes From Bre Pettis 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 needthinkpeoplethinking 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 possibleprintingdecisionpeople We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing. Bre Pettis sharingalwaysprintingpeople 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 youryouqualityworld 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 sharinghowcoolinternet 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 citygoodyoubeauty 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 bestaccidentscarproblem You learn so much by having customers and figuring out what they want and keeping them satisfied. Bre Pettis learnyousatisfiedwant 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 consumercomplexchoicedevelopment Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem. Bre Pettis makefeelproblempeople 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 meyoueducationschool 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 missionalwayscreativepeople 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 focusedcommunitymoneyworld 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 acceptdinnermoneywant
