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" In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. "
James Dyson
Hard
Facebook
Digital
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" My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything. "
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" Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are. "
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" If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way. "
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" The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free. "
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" 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. "
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Time
" There's nothing wrong with things taking time. "
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Taking Time
" What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried. "
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Wrong
" Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success. "
James Dyson
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Enjoy
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" Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. "
James Dyson
Problems
Life
Enjoy
" As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them. "
James Dyson
Problems
Engineer
Solve
" We should have A-levels in vocational subjects. "
James Dyson
Subjects
Vocational
Should
" Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes. "
James Dyson
Behind
Way
Power
" Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us. "
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Computers
Nature
Today
" 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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Engineering
Ideas
" We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate. "
James Dyson
Live
Rely
Electricity
" So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want. "
James Dyson
Technology
Better
Want
" Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something. "
James Dyson
You
Failure
Something
" Fear is always a good motivator. "
James Dyson
Motivator
Always
Fear
" When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality. "
James Dyson
Quality
Cost
Compete
" I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level. "
James Dyson
Seven
Passes
Myself
" Anger is a good motivator. "
James Dyson
Motivator
Good
Anger
" 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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Best
You
Think
" Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. "
James Dyson
Technology
Turn
Science