Bre Pettis Quotes

We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing.

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

I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.

My label, my team and I are always looking to get involved with positive things.

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.'

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.

I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have.

At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?'

We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.

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.

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

If you do something that's going to get somebody a job, then they'll be able to pay for their kid's school, and then their kid is going to be a doctor, and then that doctor is going to probably help who knows how many other people, so it's very motivating. Much more fun than going to the beach.

Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

The world needs more social innovations.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found ways to serve those children that traditional schools couldn't.

If everyone had a business model like Raven + Lily, I feel like the world would be an awesome place to live in.

I plan with the BBC African Player of the Year award to become an agent of hope and positive change in the lives of the millions of African youths who have lost hope and are deprived.