Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right … - James Dyson

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I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.

James Dyson

Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

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Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

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Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

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There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

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

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Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

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