Bre Pettis

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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
Collection: Computers
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You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.
- Bre Pettis
Collection: Ideas
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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
Collection: Together
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Done is the engine of more.
- Bre Pettis
Collection: Accomplishment
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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
Collection: Knowing
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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
Collection: Waiting
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I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.
- Bre Pettis
Collection: Kids
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It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
- Bre Pettis
Collection: Technology
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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
Collection: People
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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
Collection: People
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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
Collection: Design
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Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.
- Bre Pettis
Collection: Target
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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
Collection: Engineering