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.

— Bre Pettis

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.

— Bre Pettis

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 Maker Bot and the community.

— Bre Pettis

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

— Bre Pettis

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology you aren't passing the technology forward.

— Bre Pettis

You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your Maker Bot.

— Bre Pettis