Martin Cooper Quotes

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.

Our successes have been so great and so rapid that, within 20 years, we've gotten a third of the world's population online, shrunk our computers to the size of our hands, and connected each to each.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.