Martin Cooper Quotes

People are mobile. They move around, and anytime they want to communicate, if you tie them to the wall or the wires, you're restricting them, you're infringing on their freedom.

When I spend a lot of time in New York, or somewhere when I don't have a car, I miss that mobility and freedom that you have when you have a car. You don't have to rely on anyone else.

I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

In Australia, I can just say to my mom, 'I'm going down the street.' And I can walk around pretty much all the places I know.

There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire.

I pretty much move around wherever I like.

The independence once represented by the car has been replaced by cell phones and social networks, which are now at the forefront of people's expression of freedom and access. Once a symbol of 'coming of age,' many drivers are waiting longer to get their licenses.

Very happily, I am very fortunate to be able to be where the wind takes me, where the work takes me, and where I want to be.

Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.

I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out.

The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.