Bell Quote by Willard Boyle

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

— Steven Johnson

Bell Labs was a fantastic research organization but having them create and market new products for the world was terrible. They were not good…

— Martin Cooper

My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.

— Dennis Ritchie

“Radios, vacuum tubes, transistors, televisions, solar cells, coaxial cables, laser beams, microprocessors, computers, cell phones, fiber optics—all these essential tools of modern life descend…

— 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

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was…

— Anthony Doerr

“In 1958 AT&T, the owner of Bell Labs, was served with an antitrust court order that forbade it to ever enter the computer business…

— Arun Rao

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials…

— Robert B. Laughlin

“The theory of serendipitous creativity, in other words, seems well justified by the historical record. The transistor, we can argue with some confidence, probably…

— Cal Newport

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for…

— Alan Turing

“In 1948, while working for Bell Telephone Laboratories, he published a paper in the Bell System Technical Journal entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"…

— Charles Petzold