Future Quote by Martin Cooper

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

— Steven Johnson

It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was…

— Peter Diamandis

Great companies, I think, are the ones that see what they've built and can build on top of it and iterate their product.

— Evan Sharp

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

— Marc Andreessen

I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better.

— Sebastian Thrun

All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.

— Jay Baer

“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

“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

If you look at the antitrust lawsuit against IBM, the antitrust lawsuit against AT&T, the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, each of those ended up…

— Lina Khan

We required AT&T to open up its patent vault. We ended up broking them - breaking them up. That ended up feeding huge amounts…

— Lina Khan

There is no doubt One.Tel was a terrible investment and something that I regret greatly.

— James Packer

The team was unbelievable, and Dropbox was a really easy, simple-to-use product. Both Aditya and I believe this is the technology company we want…

— Ruchi Sanghvi