James Dyson Quotes
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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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We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
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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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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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In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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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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You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
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Reality TV is anything but.
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Emerging markets are hugely important.
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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 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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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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Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
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As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
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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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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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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.