James Dyson Quotes
In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.
I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
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.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
When you say 'design, ' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.
