Bre Pettis Quotes

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.

We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

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.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

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

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.

As a former competitor, robot combat is near and dear to my heart. I enjoy the mix of creativity and mayhem that are essential to this sport.

Electronics are getting more and more accessible now - you don't have to be an engineer to start building things.

We live in a time of astounding technological advancements. There are deep-sea drones and live-streaming virtual reality.

I just like building stuff.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

I had no money. I had no savings account.So I would bring down my color TV set, a Sears TV with a cable snaked into it - they had no video-in back in those days - and hooked it up to the circuit of very few chips and then a little keyboard you could type on. And I was trying to impress people with how did he do it with fewer chips than anyone could ever imagine?