Quotes from Martin Cooper

We had no idea that things like Facebook and Twitter, and all these other concepts, would ever happen.

When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.

Whatever happened to courtesy? What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of a dinner conversation with people who matter to you? You can't wait five minutes before staring at your phone?

I think what is going to happen in the future is more customization, more personalization. We all are different and we ought to be able to customize and have a phone that does exactly what we want it to do - that is so easy to use that we don't even have to think about it. That's what the dream is.

I use Verizon. My wife uses Cingular. I also have an AT&T phone for the car.

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.

My rule is, if you want to build something that does all things for all people, it's not going to work real well.

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

Too many engineers are wrapped up in what they call technology and the gadgets, the hardware, and they forget that the whole purpose of technology is to make peoples' lives better. People forget that, and I have to keep reminding them. We are trying to improve the human experience. That's what technology is all about.