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

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

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.

I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.

It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

Done is the engine of more.

Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If youre into electronics, get an Arduino.

We already live in the futureit's not like we're waiting for something to happenit's just a matter of doing it.

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?

A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence.

There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.