British - Designer | May 2, 1947 -
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
James Dyson
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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.
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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.
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Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
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We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.
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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.
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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'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.
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