Bre Pettis Quotes

“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. ”

“You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“... the pursuit of holiness must bre anchored in grace”

“Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?”

“He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them all the more for having made him feel so small, so petty and mean, which was all he felt just then. But it wasn't enough to stop him.”

“Meetings were an important means of Communist control. They left people no free time, and eliminated the private sphere. The pettiness which dominated them was justified on the grounds that prying into personal details was a way of ensuring thorough soul-cleansing. In fact, pettiness was a fundamental characteristic of a revolution in which intrusiveness and ignorance were celebrated, and envy was incorporated into the system of control.”