Anyone who dials a phone while driving is flirting with death. And anyone who texts while driving is insane.
Martin Cooper
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.
If you asked me what the most important thing in my life is, it's learning.
People are mobile. They move around, and anytime they want to communicate, if you tie them to the wall or the wires, you're restricting them, you're infringing on their freedom.
We should be focused on how to make people's lives better. That is the purpose of technology.
What we did with this mobile telephone was create a revolution. Before the mobile phone existed we were calling a place, now we are calling a person.
Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire.
You should not be a slave to your telephone. The technology is there to serve you, not the other way around.
Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.
I think if you have a big enough wallet you can solve anything but the key is to solve it with the least amount of expenditure.
Once you've lived in Del Mar or the San Diego area, why would you want to live anyplace else? It's the neatest place, whether it's the culture or the small-town atmosphere the whole San Diego area has.
My favourite example of good technology is the automobile. I travel all over the world and if I want to drive a car anywhere, I get in and put the key in the ignition, shift out of park and drive. I don't need an instruction manual.
We thought our vision was right, which was that someday everyone would be walking around carrying phones with them.
If we don't blow ourselves up, this is going to be a really wonderful world.
The first cellular systems didn't become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones.
What else is there in life but to accomplish things and to do things? Sure I like to be on a beach on occasion, I like to ski on occasion, but as long as I have the ability to make a contribution, I am going to keep going.
I think that wireless has the opportunity to solve a whole bunch of problems, including I believe world poverty.
The technology that lets many people use the same radio channel at the same time is called smart antenna technology or adaptive array technology or interference mitigation. This technology uses computer processors to take the signals from multiple antennas at each location and sorts the various signals out so they don't interfere with each other.
I never really started to carry a cellular phone until it was small enough so I could put it on my belt and not even feel it was there.
What's the biggest function of a cell phone? What does a cell phone do for humanity? It makes people more productive.
We predicted the concept of a telephone that isn't tied to a wall or a desk. We anticipated that everyone would have a cell phone. We joked that when you're born you would be assigned a cell phone and if you didn't answer you had died.
Privacy is a thing of the past.
There is no reason why T-Mobile can't be successful on its own and the only real reason AT&T would want to own T-Mobile is to increase its exclusivity by owning more spectrum.
Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you could do with technology if you can match it up with real problems.
The best technology is when you are free to do what you want.
I have trouble going to sleep at night, because you always get the feeling that there is another thing you could do.
If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.
It pleases me no end to have had some small impact on people's lives because these phones do make people's lives better. They promote productivity, they make people more comfortable, they make them feel safe and all of those things.
I only live for the future.
Even though you can't get along without your smartphone, there are not many essential services on your smartphone. They're mostly convenience; you could live without it. Essential means you die without it. A gadget that warns you're about to have a heart attack - that's essential. We're about to go into that phase with smartphones.
I think young people don't appreciate that when you're in your 70s, you'll lose patience for techie stuff and you may decide that you want a simple device.
Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.
I'm at the doctor's office. I'm in the waiting room. And there's this guy on his cell phone, talking really loud. Does he think he owns the place? Apparently. I think this is so offensive. But you have to remember: It doesn't take a cell phone to make people rude. People were rude before there were cell phones.
The future of cellular telephony is to make people's lives better - the most important way, in my view, will be the opportunity to revolutionise healthcare.
Our dream was that someday nobody would talk on a wired telephone. Everybody would talk on a wireless phone.
I'm always trying whatever the latest telephone is.
We did envision that some day the phone would be so small that you could hang it on your ear or even have it embedded under your skin.
When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.
The instruction manual for my Motorola phone is bigger and heavier than the phone.
There are all kinds of features that will become part of cell phones that will help us offload the more laborious things of life and let us focus on doing the things humans do well, like abstract thinking and creating.
I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid… I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.
I have a mantra that people are naturally, fundamentally and inherently mobile.
The first cell phone model weighed over one kilo, and you could only talk for 20 minutes before the battery ran out. Which is just as well because you would not be able to hold it up for much longer.
I think what's really going to happen is we're going to have a lot of different kinds of phones when our industry grows up - some that are just plain, simple telephones. In fact, my wife and I started a company, and she designed the Jitterbug, which is just a simple telephone.
Of course I have an iPhone and I use that, interestingly enough, mostly for my calendar because it synchronizes with my calendar. I take pictures with it and I show people pictures of my grandchildren.
Just remember, in 1973, we had no digital cameras, no personal computers, no Internet. The thought of putting a billion transistors in a cell phone was ludicrous.
You have to immerse yourself into a product and use it in order to really understand it and that's why I have a new cellphone every month or two.
Just suppose that you could do a physical examination, not every year, which people do and which is almost worthless, but every minute, because you're connected, and because we have devices that you can put on your body that measure virtually everything on your body.
I had an iPhone for a while, I gave that to my grandson. Kids are really caught up in that.
I got a Motorola Droid that I use. I also have a Jitterbug.
