Words matter. These are the best James Dyson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Beauty can come in strange forms.
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.
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.
There’s nothing wrong with things taking time.
Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
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.
Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn’t penalise the latter.
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.
Insurance companies don’t make anything.
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.
The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it’s an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
Britain’s great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we’re not using it.
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that’s completely inaccessible.
People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
Anger is a good motivator.
Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can’t plan 21 years ahead.
I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I’d think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.
Emerging markets are hugely important.
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.
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you’re totally free.
As a modern employer you have to treat people well.
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks – just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
Don’t listen to experts.
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.
I’m afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open.
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.
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don’t necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don’t need great big vacuums anymore.
We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
I don’t particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box – simplify it.
I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.
I like living on the edge.
I hate science fiction.
Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.
If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It’s considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
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.
I’ve fought court battles over my inventions before.
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
If you invent something, you’re doing a creative act. It’s like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It’s years of your life, it’s your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
You don’t get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
