British - Designer | May 2, 1947 -
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
James Dyson
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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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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
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Emerging markets are hugely important.
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What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.
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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.
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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.
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I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.
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I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.
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The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.
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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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Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
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