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I just think things should work properly.

James Dyson

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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
Designer
Entrepreneur
Farmer
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Cromer
Norfolk
Sir James Dyson
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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 think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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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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I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
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Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
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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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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
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We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
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I imported the first Mac into England in 1984 you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.
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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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One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
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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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If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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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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Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
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After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology
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