“ Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes. James Dyson
“ Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. 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. James Dyson
“ I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it. James Dyson
“ 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. James Dyson
“ I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree. James Dyson
“ 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 pract… James Dyson
“ In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. James Dyson
“ Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it. James Dyson
“ So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want. James Dyson
