Top 124 Quotes & Sayings by James Dyson
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British designer James Dyson.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
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.
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
Don't listen to experts.
One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
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.
If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
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.
People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of 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.
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.
You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
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 hate science fiction.
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
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.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.
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.
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.
If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
Fear is always a good motivator.
When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.
Reality TV is anything but.
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
There's nothing wrong with things taking time.
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.
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
I don't believe in brands.
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.
We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
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.
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
People buy products if they're better.
Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
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.
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
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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