Martin Cooper Quotes

We should have more invention.

Innovation is a necessity.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Engineers turn dreams into reality.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Normal people … believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.

Time may not be on our side, but innovation is.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

I'm going to keep innovating.

Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there's someone new who's born with a new idea.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

Invention is the mother of necessities.