I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.


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Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum lea...
JAMES DYSON
Anger is a good motivator.
JAMES DYSON
Fear is always a good motivator.
JAMES DYSON
Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principle...
JAMES DYSON
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and ...
FREEMAN DYSON
I just want to keep playing as I have been doing and shooting sub-par rounds. I think if one of us s...
SIMON DYSON
It's nice to see our old cars here. There's no one better to give some feedback on the car than Andy...
CHRIS DYSON
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test...
GEORGE DYSON
Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. W...
JAMES DYSON
China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-...
JAMES DYSON
The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carb...
FREEMAN DYSON
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily ...
JAMES DYSON
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come ...
FREEMAN DYSON
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
JAMES DYSON
I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so impo...
FREEMAN DYSON
Life always promises to give the world a person to take away everything bad.
ELOISE DYSON
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that ...
GEORGE DYSON
Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that ea...
BRIAN DYSON
Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
JAMES DYSON
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha...
FREEMAN DYSON
It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid fo...
JAMES DYSON
We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most ...
FREEMAN DYSON
Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
FREEMAN DYSON
We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
JAMES DYSON
There's nothing wrong with things taking time.
JAMES DYSON
I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But ...
ESTHER DYSON
Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them o...
JAMES DYSON
The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a c...
FREEMAN DYSON
Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again...
ESTHER DYSON
I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are st...
GEORGE DYSON
I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of st...
JAMES DYSON
China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
JAMES DYSON
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
FREEMAN DYSON
We're trying to reach out to users - not just from start-ups, but also the corporate types.
ESTHER DYSON
There are also computers with Windows that stick.
ESTHER DYSON
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enha...
ESTHER DYSON
The internet has many fathers but he's one of the main ones. He's an evangelist to the internet comm...
ESTHER DYSON
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful ap...
FREEMAN DYSON
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you thi...
FREEMAN DYSON
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
FREEMAN DYSON
I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
FREEMAN DYSON
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi...
FREEMAN DYSON
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
JAMES DYSON
The Mini was cheap to run, economical to build and perfect for nipping about town.
JAMES DYSON
When I escaped to art school it was a Mini that took me there.
JAMES DYSON