Quotes from Martin Cooper

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.

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.

We all know how tough children are with toys. It turns out grownups are much worse.

Just think of what a world it would be if we could measure the characteristics of your body when you get sick and transmit those directly to a doctor or a computer. You could get diagnosed and cured instantly and wirelessly.

Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.

When I go skiing, I may carry a phone, but it's there for safety purposes. I'm not one of these guys that reads his email while he's riding up on the chair lift.

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.

Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.

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 do like to get away from technology. I still read a lot. Having said that, most of my reading is on computers or a Kindle or an iPad.

I had an iPhone for a while, I gave that to my grandson. Kids are really caught up in that.

Yes, I was the one people credit with inventing the cell phone. Now, whenever anyone gets a dropped call, they blame me.

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.

Star Trek made dreaming legitimate.

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 don't want to be the oldest anything in America. Sorry about that.

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.

As soon as I get a typical day, I'll know I'm in trouble. I like doing different things all the time.

Every two and a half years, every spectrum crisis has gotten solved, and that's going to keep happening.

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.

The notion that there's finite spectrum is mostly wrong.

Cellular companies don't innovate, they just buy more spectrum.

Somehow in the last 100 years, every time there is a problem of getting more spectrum, there is a technology that comes along that solves that problem.

I think an engineer has not matured until he or she has conceived of a product and participated in every stage of bringing it to fruition, if that makes sense. And not many engineers get to do all of those stages.