Words matter. These are the best Martin Cooper Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Bell Labs was a fantastic research organization but having them create and market new products for the world was terrible. They were not good marketers and yet it was AT&T engineers who were deciding what the products of the future were.
Somehow in the last 100 years, every time there is a problem of getting more spectrum, there is a technology that comes along that solves that problem.
There were a lot of naysayers over the years. People would say, ‘Why are we spending all of this money? Are you sure this cellular thing will turn out to be something?’
I’m a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality.
I don’t want to be the oldest anything in America. Sorry about that.
Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you could do with technology if you can match it up with real problems.
Our dream was that someday nobody would talk on a wired telephone. Everybody would talk on a wireless phone.
The best technology is when you are free to do what you want.
People are mobile. They move around, and anytime they want to communicate, if you tie them to the wall or the wires, you’re restricting them, you’re infringing on their freedom.
A telephone number shouldn’t represent a home or a car or a restaurant, but instead a person.
People thought I was crazy thinking about a phone you can just put in your pocket.
I think young people don’t appreciate that when you’re in your 70s, you’ll lose patience for techie stuff and you may decide that you want a simple device.
Just remember, in 1973, we had no digital cameras, no personal computers, no Internet. The thought of putting a billion transistors in a cell phone was ludicrous.
We should be focused on how to make people’s lives better. That is the purpose of technology.
Star Trek made dreaming legitimate.
What’s the biggest function of a cell phone? What does a cell phone do for humanity? It makes people more productive.
My favourite example of good technology is the automobile. I travel all over the world and if I want to drive a car anywhere, I get in and put the key in the ignition, shift out of park and drive. I don’t need an instruction manual.
What we did with this mobile telephone was create a revolution. Before the mobile phone existed we were calling a place, now we are calling a person.
There are all kinds of features that will become part of cell phones that will help us offload the more laborious things of life and let us focus on doing the things humans do well, like abstract thinking and creating.
The first cellular systems didn’t become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones.
You should not be a slave to your telephone. The technology is there to serve you, not the other way around.
The first cell phone model weighed over one kilo, and you could only talk for 20 minutes before the battery ran out. Which is just as well because you would not be able to hold it up for much longer.
Of course I have an iPhone and I use that, interestingly enough, mostly for my calendar because it synchronizes with my calendar. I take pictures with it and I show people pictures of my grandchildren.
The instruction manual for my Motorola phone is bigger and heavier than the phone.
The optimum telephone is one that I think some day is gonna be embedded behind your ear. It’s gonna have an extraordinarily powerful computer running the cell phone.
I have trouble going to sleep at night, because you always get the feeling that there is another thing you could do.
Privacy is a thing of the past.
It doesn’t take a cell phone to make a person rude. There are rude people all over the place. But people are learning. I have never heard a cell phone ring in the movies. We are going to learn how to live with the advantages of new technology.
I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That’s what engineers do.
If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn’t create the box in the first place.
If you asked me what the most important thing in my life is, it’s learning.
WattUp is one of those rare breakthroughs that recognizes that the so-called ‘battery’ problem in wireless devices is solved with a charging solution that is transparent to the user. The cell phone with a dead battery can become a relic of the past. The days of wired, mat-based and proximity charging are over.
I had an iPhone for a while, I gave that to my grandson. Kids are really caught up in that.
My wife has forced me to wear designer jeans, and I find… there must be two or three hundred different kinds of jeans you can wear, all of which are made out of denim and look roughly the same. People are different. They have different tastes, different bodies. Cellphones ought to be the same.
The public doesn’t adopt radical concepts very quickly.
I think that wireless has the opportunity to solve a whole bunch of problems, including I believe world poverty.
Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.
Good technology is intuitive – the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.
I wouldn’t use a phone with less than a 4-inch screen anymore.
Cellular companies don’t innovate, they just buy more spectrum.
I use Verizon. My wife uses Cingular. I also have an AT&T phone for the car.
The more we learn about new communications, the more capacity we need, and that is going to keep going on forever. That’s been happening since radio was invented, and that’s going to keep going.
Just think of what a world it would be if we could measure the characteristics of your body when you get sick and transmit those directly to a doctor or a computer. You could get diagnosed and cured instantly and wirelessly.
I think what is going to happen in the future is more customization, more personalization. We all are different and we ought to be able to customize and have a phone that does exactly what we want it to do – that is so easy to use that we don’t even have to think about it. That’s what the dream is.
Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire.
