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

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

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

- James Dyson

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

- 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

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

- James Dyson

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

- James Dyson

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

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

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

- James Dyson