3 December 2020 James Dyson My interest in film is sort of catholic – apart from science fiction and horror movies, I’ll watch almost everything.
3 December 2020 James Dyson Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
3 December 2020 James Dyson In the digital age of ‘overnight’ success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
3 December 2020 James Dyson 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.
3 December 2020 James Dyson When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren’t important.
3 December 2020 James Dyson People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.
3 December 2020 James Dyson So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
3 December 2020 James Dyson I’m not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths – grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
3 December 2020 James Dyson China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn’t have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers – the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.
3 December 2020 James Dyson Britain’s great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we’re not using it.
3 December 2020 James Dyson 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.
3 December 2020 James Dyson I don’t do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it’s a logical business decision.
3 December 2020 James Dyson 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.
3 December 2020 James Dyson Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
3 December 2020 James Dyson I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you’re going to do when you’ve got your degree.
3 December 2020 James Dyson The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
3 December 2020 James Dyson I don’t particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box – simplify it.
3 December 2020 James Dyson When you say ‘design,’ everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it’s an emotive word. Everybody thinks it’s how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.
