Advent Quote by Julian Ovenden

Wireless is freedom. It's about being unleashed from the telephone cord and having the ability to be virtually anywhere when you want to be.

— Martin Cooper

I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for.…

— William Gibson

I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application

— Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Wifi was never supposed to be a big thing and certainly not a thing that would become as vital to a home as indoor…

— Steven Levy

We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising,…

— Winston Churchill

Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city.

— Steven Levy

There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

— Vint Cerf

Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.

— Kara Swisher

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels…

— Tony Abbott

Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.

— Douglas Coupland

“Here is Lee De Forest addressing young people on the joys of the wireless: If you haven’t a hobby—get one. Ride it. Your interest…

— Tim Wu

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

— Nikola Tesla