The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day.
TIM COOKThe worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you’re an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.
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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.
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Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those.
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Where we might go in the future, we’ll see. Customers love games. I’m not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger.
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Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn’t know you wanted and then once you get it, you can’t imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.
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The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you’re an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.
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I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I’m willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero.
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If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.
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You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
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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.
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A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.
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If I’m working with you for several months on things, if I have a relationship with you, and I decide one day I’m going to sue you,
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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.
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History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.
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You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.
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So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It drew on the moral sense that I’d learned from my parents, and in church, and in my own heart, and led me on my own journey of discovery.
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