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" The internet business model changed dramatically. You would never have an Uber, you would never had an Instagram, if you didn't have a connected computer in your pocket that didn't also have a camera or a GPS. "

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" If you look at where the growth is happening - tablet growth compared to the traditional PC growth - you just can't compare them. "

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" If we don't figure out a way to have secure, connected healthcare, or connectivity and computing, we won't have that industry develop. "

" In the chip business, our higher-tier products are actually becoming more expensive because more and more of the functionality of the phone comes into the chip itself. So we have been grabbing content on the phone at a time when the phone is becoming more and more like a PC in terms of things it can do. "

" Every major car company is trying to figure out, 'How do I deploy the Internet into the car? How do I get cars to talk to each other? How do I get more safety? How do I get the ownership experience to change dramatically as a result?' "

" As a company, whatever the business outlook is, you want to make sure you have new skill sets coming into the company. "

" When people talk about wearables, when people talk about connected XYZ - home, car, whatever - those are all smartphone technologies. "

" Today, billions of mobile devices with extraordinary power are uniting with advancements in robotics artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and so much more. "

Steve Mollenkopf

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" People tend to associate Qualcomm with the chip - and they should: We're an excellent chip company - but I think we have a larger role in the ecosystem of cellular that I think people are not aware of. And our relevance to more consumer electronics - and, I would say, industries - is actually just increasing. "

Steve Mollenkopf

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" People tend to not forgo purchasing a cellphone. In many places in the world, the first time they get on the Internet is through a cellphone. Pretty significant economic push, particularly in the emerging market. "

" Look at smartphones. We are seeing growth almost like a barbell. You see lower-priced but high-volume growth in the developing world. But it ends up the average selling prices in the developing world are actually a lot higher than what people think. "

" When you go in to get your car serviced, they plug it in and tell you everything that happened for the last six months. I walk in and get a stress test from my doctor, and they make a conclusion based off of that. That doesn't make sense to me. I would much prefer to have all of the data about myself and less about my car. "

Steve Mollenkopf

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Doctor

" I was the youngest kid on our street in Baltimore, and I was always playing sports with kids who were older than me. You learn a lot that way. "

Steve Mollenkopf

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" Cars are now saying, 'I need special features because I'm going to rely on the network for mission critical things, safety, transportation efficiency.' "

" I knew I wanted to be an engineer, but I didn't know what type of engineer. I chose electrical engineering primarily because it was the hardest one to get into. It's ridiculous when I think about it now, but it worked out OK. "

" You want to encourage yourself to take risks. If you make a mistake trying to do something, you can fix it later. "

" Both parents were teachers. My father became an assistant principal, and he was responsible for discipline at the school. So I didn't get away with much at home. "

" A heart monitor is only useful if it's being remotely monitored if there's security. That is a massive issue that you need to solve. The difference between having the Internet in your phone and having the Internet understand your pulse and the motion of all of your limbs. There's just a different level of security and robustness that's required. "

" The licensing business is about licensing the full portfolio of Qualcomm's patents. Some of them involve the chip. Some of them don't involve the chip. In fact, the vast majority of them don't involve the chip. "

" If you look at the developed world, people have multiple devices now. And a phone works with a watch, with a car, with a tablet, with a number of other type of devices. "

" If you look back to 2008, people didn't have smartphones. Now everyone essentially has a smartphone. "

" Power, of course, is very important, but really, there's a bundle of technologies you have to have to make sure they're highly integrated, so you have to have modem, you have to have connectivity, you have to have GPS, you have to have graphics, you have to have CPU. "

" Qualcomm is this big innovation house that tries to figure out how we can get as many people as possible using the cellular road map. The smartphone is just the first step along that journey. "

" 5G will have an impact similar to the introduction of electricity or the car, affecting entire economies and benefiting entire societies. "