Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.
TIM COOKThe government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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There’s a mountain of information about us. I mean there’s so much. Anyway, I’m not an intelligence person. But I just look at it and it’s a mountain of data.
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We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.
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A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a sign that something is wrong when you have a VP of innovation or something. You know, put a for-sale sign on the door.
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I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others.
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Excellence has become a habit.
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Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.
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We wouldn’t be able to buy things online, because your credit cards – they’ve probably been ripped off anyway, but they would be ripped off left and right every day if there wasn’t encryption.
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Our new watches are made entirely of double super gold. They are just a piece of gold that you can wear to the left, right, or directly on top of the other gold you own.
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I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for.
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In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.
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The iPad remains Apple’s second bestselling product – all the more reason why the iPad Pro needs to be “big” in every sense of the word.
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I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.
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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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Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open.
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I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information.
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We can’t take all of our energy and all of our care and finish the painting, then have someone else put their name on it.
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My business is not reading your messages. I don’t have a business doing that. And it’s against my values to do that. I don’t want to read your private stuff.
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I am who I am, and I’m focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.
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We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.
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We’re talking about a world where the PC is no longer the center, but just a devicewhere your new devices need to be more portable, more personal.
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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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I don’t think Apple has to own a content business.
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Android dominates the mobile malware market.
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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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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.
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Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.
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