Bre Pettis Quotes

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.

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

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.

Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world.

Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic hamburgers to multi-story apartment buildings.

Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.

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

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

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.

The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

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.

For me, open source is a moral thing.

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

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

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

The Web's core vision and value is to be platform independent. Microsoft has no right to think it can win a tool that is for the people, of the people, and ultimately - by the people.

I have really become a huge believer in the power of open source.

Open-source is a means of production.