James Dyson

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

Anger is a good motivator.

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

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

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.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

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.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

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.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

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

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.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

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

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.