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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
Designer
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Cromer
Norfolk
Sir James Dyson
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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.
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[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.
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I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.
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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.
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[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
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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
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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.
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Emerging markets are hugely important.
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In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.
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I just think things should work properly.
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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
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If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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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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One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
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Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.
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The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.
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Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
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If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
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