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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
Designer
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Cromer
Norfolk
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I just want things to work properly.
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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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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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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
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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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In the digital age of overnight success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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Anger is a good motivator.
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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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Beauty can come in strange forms.
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Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
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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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Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
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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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Emerging markets are hugely 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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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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An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
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After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology
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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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