Famous Quotes

Quotes by James Dyson

• Anger is a good motivator.
• Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
• Beauty can come in strange forms.
• Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
• Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
• 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.
• Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
• 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.
• Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
• Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
• Fear is always a good motivator.
• I don't design down to a price.
• I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.
• I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
• I hate science fiction.
• I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.
• I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.
• I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
• 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.
• In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
• My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
• People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.
• So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
• The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
• 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.
• The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
• Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
• When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
• 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.