“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 want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.

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,

Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.

Security isn’t just a feature, it’s a base, it’s a fundamental, right.

Never try to fix other people. God does not need to do a bank shot off your lips.

Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.

My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I’m not the only person that thinks that.

Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.

So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

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.

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.

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.

Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.

If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.

Nobody wants to buy sour milk.

Everybody doesn’t want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.

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.