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Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
Quote by -James Dyson
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.
Quote by -James Dyson
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.
Quote by -James Dyson
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.
Quote by -James Dyson
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.
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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.
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The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
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The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
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My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
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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.
Quote by -James Dyson
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
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Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.
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Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
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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.
Quote by -James Dyson
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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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.
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China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
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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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We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.
Quote by -James Turrell
In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.
Quote by -James Turrell
This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material - that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.
Quote by -James Turrell
It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.
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Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.
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We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.
Quote by -James Turrell