You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys.
TIM COOKHonestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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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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Everybody doesn’t want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.
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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.
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I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s.
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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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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.
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No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don’t shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics.
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Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.
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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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Apple Pay is forever changing the way we pay for things.
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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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Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.
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There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country.
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The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena!
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My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I’m not the only person that thinks that.
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