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I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
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Norfolk
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Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.
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If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
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You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
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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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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
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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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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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When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
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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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Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
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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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I just think things should work properly.
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In the digital age of overnight success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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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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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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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 you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.
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After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology
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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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