Bre Z Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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#3. Bre said there's only one real adventure in this world. Love. It's finding the one person who makes you want to be better than you are.

Anna Katmore

#4. The people who are getting 3-D printers at home are pioneers, kind of like the people who bought Apple IIs in 1981. Adults are usually the last people to get it. The kids are like, 'Get out of my way, I want at this thing.' They immediately start getting creative.

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

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars.

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#10. The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents ... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.

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#11. I like to make things. It's been part of my identity since I was a kid.

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#12. While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.

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#13. Done is the engine of more.

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#14. Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

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

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#16. We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn't accept money from anybody we didn't want to have dinner with.

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#17. You learn so much by having customers and figuring out what they want and keeping them satisfied.

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#18. 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.

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#19. For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy.

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#20. 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?

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#21. At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing ititeration is a way of engineering.

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#22. Bre, I love you and I don't know how to stop it. I can't and I won't.

Jaime Guerard Awaken

#23. I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.

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#24. The pursuit of holiness must bre anchored in grace; otherwise it is doomed to failure.

Jerry Bridges

#25. I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

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#26. My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.

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#27. You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

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

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

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#30. I've watched with amazement as Local Motors has pioneered a co-creation and micro-manufacturing model that has democratized the development and production of complex machines, effectively transforming consumer choice from supply-driven to demand-driven.

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