Martin Cooper Quotes

I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.

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

Ideally, the ITU must be made up of truly visionary leaders - those willing to do the hard work to get critical spectrum bands realigned and put to their highest use.

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.

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.

Technology is at a point where we should allow multiple parties to occupy the same spectral space.

I can assure you that the United States intends to pursue the best course of action to meet its own spectrum needs.

No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience and reserves to overcome the economic downturn

Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science has given society all the material things it enjoys.

Most people somehow look at people in the crisis industry as fixers, but some things can't be fixed by an outside person.

Some of our best and unexpected discoveries have been born out of crises - from the Second World War, for example, came Alan Turing's decoding machine, widely considered as the precursor to modern day computers and artificial intelligence.

Increasingly, meeting the connectivity needs of all Americans - no matter where you live - means freeing up spectrum to meet the growing demand for wireless broadband.

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

There's going to be situations that you get into that you're going to need help, for sure. But for the most part, I think coaching is just understanding who you have and your team, understanding yourself, and understanding the situation.

I think the thing is resolving problems rather than letting them fester.

Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems.

Every manager must be prepared to face every situation.

I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

The more games you play, the more game management you learn.

I've been mayor for five years. I've led a city. And directed a police department. I know how to use resources.

The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it