I had an iPhone for a while, I gave that to my grandson. Kids are really caught up in that.

Just suppose that you could do a physical examination, not every year, which people do and which is almost worthless, but every minute, because you're connected, and because we have devices that you can put on your body that measure virtually everything on your body.

You have to immerse yourself into a product and use it in order to really understand it and that's why I have a new cellphone every month or two.

Just remember, in 1973, we had no digital cameras, no personal computers, no Internet. The thought of putting a billion transistors in a cell phone was ludicrous.

Of course I have an iPhone and I use that, interestingly enough, mostly for my calendar because it synchronizes with my calendar. I take pictures with it and I show people pictures of my grandchildren.

I think what's really going to happen is we're going to have a lot of different kinds of phones when our industry grows up - some that are just plain, simple telephones. In fact, my wife and I started a company, and she designed the Jitterbug, which is just a simple telephone.

The first cell phone model weighed over one kilo, and you could only talk for 20 minutes before the battery ran out. Which is just as well because you would not be able to hold it up for much longer.

I have a mantra that people are naturally, fundamentally and inherently mobile.

I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid… I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.

There are all kinds of features that will become part of cell phones that will help us offload the more laborious things of life and let us focus on doing the things humans do well, like abstract thinking and creating.

The instruction manual for my Motorola phone is bigger and heavier than the phone.

When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.

We did envision that some day the phone would be so small that you could hang it on your ear or even have it embedded under your skin.

I'm always trying whatever the latest telephone is.

Our dream was that someday nobody would talk on a wired telephone. Everybody would talk on a wireless phone.

The future of cellular telephony is to make people's lives better - the most important way, in my view, will be the opportunity to revolutionise healthcare.

I'm at the doctor's office. I'm in the waiting room. And there's this guy on his cell phone, talking really loud. Does he think he owns the place? Apparently. I think this is so offensive. But you have to remember: It doesn't take a cell phone to make people rude. People were rude before there were cell phones.

Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.

I think young people don't appreciate that when you're in your 70s, you'll lose patience for techie stuff and you may decide that you want a simple device.

Even though you can't get along without your smartphone, there are not many essential services on your smartphone. They're mostly convenience; you could live without it. Essential means you die without it. A gadget that warns you're about to have a heart attack - that's essential. We're about to go into that phase with smartphones.

I only live for the future.

It pleases me no end to have had some small impact on people's lives because these phones do make people's lives better. They promote productivity, they make people more comfortable, they make them feel safe and all of those things.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

I have trouble going to sleep at night, because you always get the feeling that there is another thing you could do.