Business Quote by Arun Rao

“What made Bell Labs fundamentally different had as much to do with antitrust law as the geniuses it attracted.”

— Steven Johnson

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

— Dennis Ritchie

The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty…

— Tim Wu

“In 1894 Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patents expired. Within a few years, over 6,000 local telephone companies were competing for the U.S. market.”

— William Poundstone

In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was…

— Vint Cerf

“So assuming one could argue that Google is a monopoly and needs to enter into a consent decree, would the Bell Labs model work?…

— Jonathan Taplin

AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things…

— Lester Thurow

I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time,…

— Ajit Pai

It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't…

— Al Ries

Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

— Walter Isaacson

“In fact , we might as well say "proprietary", which ,in fact, was the byword of the old computer industry.”

— Andrew S. Grove