“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.”

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.

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.

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.

A great product isn’t just a collection of features. It’s how it all works together.

Our competition is different. They’re confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they’re trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they’ll do next?

There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate – when a particular course of action just feels right.

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

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.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.

If I had been at a University I don’t think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don’t think I have been as successful

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone’s health. It’s not only a feeling that I’m worth something, but that I have something to contribute.

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.