James Dyson Quotes
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Reality TV is anything but.
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Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
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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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Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
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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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I hate science fiction.
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You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
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Emerging markets are hugely important.
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I don't believe in brands.
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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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In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
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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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Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a great love for what they're doing.
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Don't listen to experts.
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As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
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Insurance companies don't make anything.
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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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When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
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I don't design down to a price.
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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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My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
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Anger is a good motivator.
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Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.