Quotes About Technology

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

I think that the Internet and print behave in a complementary manner.

I've never read an ebook. Print every time.

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.

I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.

People say, 'Well everybody needs a cellphone.' Well, what does 'need' mean? Do you need an iPad? How about a computer? A printer?

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

There's things that you just couldn't do with an optical printer. Now, with digital compositing, most of the energy that goes into a shot goes into the aesthetic issues of, 'Is it a good shot or not?'

With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer.

There's just a certain fear that people have when they put meat coming out of a printer in their mouth.

Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

The people who are getting 3-D printers at home are pioneers, kind of like the people who bought Apple IIs in 1981. Adults are usually the last people to get it. The kids are like, 'Get out of my way, I want at this thing.' They immediately start getting creative.

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.

We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.

The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off.

I've always taken apart calculators and anything I can get my hands on when I was younger. When I was around 12 - like, 6th grade - my parents always had around Mac computers because my mom is a teacher. So I'd always be playing around with all the crazy applications and making banners and printing things out and always into graphic design.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.