Quotes About Martin Cooper

#1. When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.

Martin Cooper

#2. To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

Charles Krauthammer

#3. The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.

Paul Kane

#4. When I was young, the concept of being a dreamer was a very negative one. If you were a dreamer, you were useless. You didn't contribute anything to society. But Star Trek made dreaming legitimate, and I think that was a huge, huge contribution.

Martin Cooper

#5. If you think you can experience the power of the Internet on a 1-inch screen, you've got to be out of your mind.

Martin Cooper

#6. People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973,

Martin Cooper

#7. Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.

Martin Cooper

#8. Even the robin and the martin come back, year after year, to their old nests; shall a woman be less true hearted than a bird?

James Fenimore Cooper

#9. Presence is a noun, not a verb; it is a state of being, not doing. States of being are not highly valued in a culture that places a high priority on doing. Yet, true presence or "being with" another person carries with it a silent power.

Jay Allison

#10. Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well.

Martin Cooper

#11. The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.

Amy Tan

#12. So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said "Eurostar?". I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".

Tommy Cooper

#13. You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

Caleb Carr

#14. We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give the phones away to people for nothing.

Martin Cooper

#15. The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

Martin Cooper