James Dyson Quotes
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I don't believe in brands.
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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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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.
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The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
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Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.
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Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
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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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If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
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People buy products if they're better.
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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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Emerging markets are hugely important.
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You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
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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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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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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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I hate science fiction.
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I don't design down to a price.
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I'm not a businessman.
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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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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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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.