James Dyson

“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'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.”

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

“Anger is a good motivator.”

“I don't design down to a price.”

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

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

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

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

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