47 Quotes by Bre Pettis

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.

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.

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

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

One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.

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.

If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.

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.

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.