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Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
James Dyson
Car
Extremely
Aircraft
Exciting
Racing
Racing Cars
Thing
Designing
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
James Dyson
Path
Inventor
Head
Groans
Riddled
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.
James Dyson
Time
School
Other
Melody
Hymns
Boy
Prayers
Orchestra
Sang
Enjoyed
Played
Playing
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
James Dyson
Today
Nature
Computers
Almost
Most
Us
Second
Second Nature
Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
James Dyson
You
Lasts
Factory
Nobody
Lease
Years
Expenditure
Wants
Which
Plan
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
James Dyson
You
Free
Pencil
Totally
Something
Computer
How
Dictates
Whereas
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
James Dyson
Success
Age
Facebook
Digital
Digital Age
Easily
Overlooked
Overnight
Overnight Success
Stories
Success Stories
Hard
China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
James Dyson
Will
Partner
Invaluable
Both
Trading
Trading Partner
China
People buy products if they're better.
James Dyson
Buy
People
Better
Products
I like living on the edge.
James Dyson
Edge
Living
Like
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.
James Dyson
Time
You
Job
Power
Enough
Jobs
Over
Quick
Want
Designed
Need
Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
James Dyson
Good
Good Thing
Well
Thing
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.
James Dyson
Technology
World
Old
Way
East
Super
Emerging
Driven
Economies
New
Powers
Going
Just
Far
Far East
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.
James Dyson
Good
You
Science
People
Engineering
Think
Once
Extremely
Degrees
Highly
Got
Very
Get
Them
Realizing
Paid
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
James Dyson
Great
People
Big
Smaller
Houses
Getting
Anymore
Apartments
Whole
Need
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
James Dyson
You
Science
Sexy
Rivalry
Concentrate
Make
Issues
Human
Themes
Media
Thinks
I don't believe in brands.
James Dyson
Believe
Brands
I hate science fiction.
James Dyson
Science
Hate
Science Fiction
Fiction
I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
James Dyson
You
School
Black
Design
Everything
Follow
Simplify
Particularly
Make
Box
Where
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
James Dyson
Great
Ending
Thought
Few
Too
Put
Up
Any
Inaccessible
Far
Product
Designers
Anger is a good motivator.
James Dyson
Good
Anger
Motivator
Beauty can come in strange forms.
James Dyson
Strange
Beauty
Come
Forms
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
James Dyson
Internet
Entrepreneurs
Retail
Scientists
Want
Engineers
Necessarily
Designers
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
James Dyson
Technology
Science
Design
Ideas
Subject
Mathematical
Where
Turn
Should
Useful
Products
Bright
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
Engineering
Considered
Those
Neither
Boring
Rather
True
Disdain
Irrelevant
Whole
Treated
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
James Dyson
Strength
Great
Natural
Engineering
Design
Innovative
Ability
Natural Ability
Using
Britain
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