I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others.
TIM COOKI’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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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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I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn’t be intrusive.
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Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I’m not going to witness or permit the change of it.
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Our business is not based on having information about you. You’re not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs and so forth. And so we run a very different company.
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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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Never try to fix other people. God does not need to do a bank shot off your lips.
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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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Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.
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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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I don’t own encryption, Apple doesn’t own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.
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It’s the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.
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I love museums. But I don’t want to live in one.
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Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.
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Excellence has become a habit.
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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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