You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
TIM COOKThe government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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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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A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.
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An acorn would never brag about giving shade.
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Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.
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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,
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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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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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You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys.
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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 don’t think Apple has to own a content business.
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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?
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If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.
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Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.
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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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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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