We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate. James Dyson Read Quote
I’ve obviously used fans – I wouldn’t say all my life, because we couldn’t afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we’ve had to use fans. And I’ve always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them. James Dyson Read Quote
Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don’t want the power waning over time. James Dyson Read Quote
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. James Dyson Read Quote
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. James Dyson Read Quote
My interest in film is sort of catholic – apart from science fiction and horror movies, I’ll watch almost everything. James Dyson Read Quote
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. James Dyson Read Quote
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don’t need great big vacuums anymore. James Dyson Read Quote
I don’t particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box – simplify it. James Dyson Read Quote
