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.

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.

Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away.

Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.

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

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.

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

The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace.

Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.

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

The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off.

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.

Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

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.

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

I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.

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.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

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.'

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

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

There's so many ways of making product design easier, more efficient, quicker. People are now taking DNA from cows and growing leather. The implications of that, in what it has from a grain standpoint, are enormous.