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

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.
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Community Design Empowering
We already live in the futureit’s not like we’re waiting for something to happenit’s just a matter of doing it.
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Matter Something Waitin Waiting
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?
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Giving People Potential Tangible
A lot of it is “how do you work with people”. How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.
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People Wonderful Things
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.
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Engineering Firsts Way
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.
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Accepting Knowing Pretending
It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren’t passing the technology forward.
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Passing Technology

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