Martin Cooper Quotes

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.

The Internet won't skip a beat, and neither will I. Technology is constantly changing and evolving.

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.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

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.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s.

The mobile industry changed Africa.

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

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

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

Mobile internet will be the single-most defining technology of this century for human development.