Makerbot Quotes

#1. On the kitchen table a MakerBot was producing a small plastic part, watched intently by a young woman who was talking on her phone in a mix of English and Mandarin.

Neal Stephenson

#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.

Bre Pettis

#3. 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.

Bre Pettis

#4. 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.

Bre Pettis

#5. 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.'

Bre Pettis

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

Bre Pettis

#7. 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.

Bre Pettis

#8. 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.

Matt Mullenweg

#9. 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.

Bre Pettis

#10. 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.

Bre Pettis

#11. 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.

Bre Pettis

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

Bre Pettis

#13. As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.

Niklas Zennstrom

#14. Behind every great woman is a great behind!

Rhonda Shear

#15. They would catch her. They would make sure she was all right. That's what grown-ups did. They looked after you. They -

Charlie Higson

#16. The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

Arthur Henderson

#17. The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Andy Warhol

#18. The things you don't have control over, you don't worry about. I have control over my attitude, my perception, how I do things, and you do the very best job you can. Other people have control over other things and you let them do their jobs.

Mike Sherman

#19. However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

Dorothy Rowe

#20. Eucharisteo - thanksgiving - always precedes the miracle.

Ann Voskamp

#21. [My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

John Waters

#22. I don't want to think of you having to spend a lifetime with someone who doesn't deserve you.

Anonymous