Martin Cooper Quotes

I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that's the best business you can have.

With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without.

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

What we believe at Founders Fund is that technology is a way to help everybody on the planet.

Modern science, when devoted whole-heartedly to the general welfare, has in it potentialities of which we do not yet dream.

I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world's population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind.

Americans have so much natural entrepreneurial drive. The caveat is that it is technology that should be a tool making lives better in the real world, and in line with the American spirit of getting better and better at something, whether it's curing cancer or creating a better taxi service.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them.

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.

The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

What did you do to change the world today?

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you could do with technology if you can match it up with real problems.

I wanted to develop a career where I could use my engineering background to have a positive effect on society.