“Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose. It doesn’t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it shrouds itself within the very laws meant to protect us.”

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.

Apple Watch is the most personal device we’ve ever created.

There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country.

You are more powerful than you think.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

Gaming has kind of evolved a bit. More people play on portable devices.

I just want to build great products.

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.

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.

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

Most of society’s decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.