James Dyson Quotes
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If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
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You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
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My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
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Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.
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China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.
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As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
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Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
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When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.
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Reality TV is anything but.
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I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.
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If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
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Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
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I hate science fiction.
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If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
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Emerging markets are hugely important.
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I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.
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If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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I don't believe in brands.
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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
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The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.
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Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.