When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate. — Martin Cooper Customer Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the oldest anything in America. Sorry about that. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
We had no idea that things like Facebook and Twitter, and all these other concepts, would ever happen. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
I use Verizon. My wife uses Cingular. I also have an AT&T phone for the car. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
Every two and a half years, every spectrum crisis has gotten solved, and that's going to keep happening. — Martin Cooper Crisis Copy Share Image
The first cellular systems didn't become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
What's the biggest function of a cell phone? What does a cell phone do for humanity? It makes people more productive. — Martin Cooper Cell phone Copy Share Image
The more we learn about new communications, the more capacity we need, and that is going to keep going on forever. That's… — Martin Cooper Communication Copy Share Image
Yes, I was the one people credit with inventing the cell phone. Now, whenever anyone gets a dropped call, they blame me. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
Once you've lived in Del Mar or the San Diego area, why would you want to live anyplace else? It's the neatest… — Martin Cooper Culture Copy Share Image
I never really started to carry a cellular phone until it was small enough so I could put it on my belt… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
If you think you can experience the power of the Internet on a 1-inch screen, you've got to be out of your… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
The future of cellular telephony is to make people's lives better - the most important way, in my view, will be the… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
My wife has forced me to wear designer jeans, and I find... there must be two or three hundred different kinds of… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
What else is there in life but to accomplish things and to do things? Sure I like to be on a beach… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
We predicted the concept of a telephone that isn't tied to a wall or a desk. We anticipated that everyone would have… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
WattUp is one of those rare breakthroughs that recognizes that the so-called 'battery' problem in wireless devices is solved with a charging… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
Bell Labs was a fantastic research organization but having them create and market new products for the world was terrible. They were… — Martin Cooper Engineers Copy Share Image
When I was young, the concept of being a dreamer was a very negative one. If you were a dreamer, you were… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
The biggest innovation of all is social networking, and cellular technology is the facilitator for social networking. People are mobile; social networking… — Martin Cooper Innovation Copy Share Image
My favourite example of good technology is the automobile. I travel all over the world and if I want to drive a… — Martin Cooper Automobile Copy Share Image
Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many… — Martin Cooper Business Copy Share Image
People are mobile. They move around, and anytime they want to communicate, if you tie them to the wall or the wires,… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
You should not be a slave to your telephone. The technology is there to serve you, not the other way around. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
Of course I have an iPhone and I use that, interestingly enough, mostly for my calendar because it synchronizes with my calendar.… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
We did envision that some day the phone would be so small that you could hang it on your ear or even… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones,… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
I think if you have a big enough wallet you can solve anything but the key is to solve it with the… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
Somehow in the last 100 years, every time there is a problem of getting more spectrum, there is a technology that comes… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
You have to immerse yourself into a product and use it in order to really understand it and that's why I have… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
The first cell phone model weighed over one kilo, and you could only talk for 20 minutes before the battery ran out.… — Martin Cooper Cell phone Copy Share Image
Our dream was that someday nobody would talk on a wired telephone. Everybody would talk on a wireless phone. — Martin Cooper Dream Copy Share Image
When I go skiing, I may carry a phone, but it's there for safety purposes. I'm not one of these guys that… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
I think that wireless has the opportunity to solve a whole bunch of problems, including I believe world poverty. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. — Martin Cooper Choice Copy Share Image
We thought our vision was right, which was that someday everyone would be walking around carrying phones with them. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
