“Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you’re pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job. And life is too short for that.”

You are more powerful than you think.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

Gaming has kind of evolved a bit. More people play on portable devices.

I just want to build great products.

I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.

From our point of view it’s important that Apple not be the developer for the world.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It’s embedded in me.

We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s.

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

An acorn would never brag about giving shade.

We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.

Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open.

Android dominates the mobile malware market.

So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

There can be no ‘graduated exercises in drawing’ leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars.

Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.