James Dyson Quotes
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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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In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
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Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.
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An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
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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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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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I don't believe in brands.
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Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.
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People buy products if they're better.
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Emerging markets are hugely important.
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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 robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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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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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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You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
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I hate science fiction.
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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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I'm not a businessman.
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The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.
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Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
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Insurance companies don't make anything.
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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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Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.