Martin Cooper Quotes

I'm pretty good for an old geek.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.

I am 58. That is pretty old, for God's sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.

Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"

I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar!

I'll be 50 years old tomorrow and that means, among other things, that now Bob Dole can start telling jokes about me.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.

I don't think that I'm old.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

I'm old, not dead.

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

I am in the prime of my senility.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

Old is when people compliment your alligator shoes, and you're not wearing any.

I'm not sure if I can swagger anymore, but I can limp with the best of them.