Quotes from James Dyson

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

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

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.

Anger is a good motivator.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

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.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

[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.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

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.

I don't design down to a price.

People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

Don't listen to experts.

Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.