James Dyson

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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.

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In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

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As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

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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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We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.

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I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.

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There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

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

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