"It is important to us that our Ball Labs technical staff be seen as leaders in their field. Publication and professional service matter. Experts in virtually any field of computing are right here. The research-funding model gives us a degree of freedom to think Long-term and to think outside the box of existing businesses. Too many other companies today have lost sight of this long-term view. Research needs the time for 'big ideas' to develop and the space to think in unorthodox directions,Bell Labs understands this and has a record of 75 years of making research-driven revolutions happen."

-Hank Korth

"If you want to change the world while keeping your brain alive, making a contribution not just to what people can do, but to what they actually choose to do, then you have to work here. We have the depth, intellect, and culture of a traditional pure research lab, but we have the expertise, mission, and charter to do much more than that. Don't be a footnote in history, be on the front page of the next chapter."

-Brian Reid, Bell Labs researcher

"Our mission is to produce innovative, market-leading technology and products to further Lucent's leadership in packet-switched networking, communication systems, and application software."

-Bill Coughran.

"Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something that you have never seen before."

-Alexander Graham Bell

"We will be the architects and builders of a new generation of networks"

-R.McGinn