“A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.”

My business is not reading your messages. I don’t have a business doing that. And it’s against my values to do that. I don’t want to read your private stuff.

I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others.

If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.

I don’t really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

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.

It is possible to be aware of God at all times.

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.

It’s the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.

We make the best phone, we don’t make the most phones.

People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.

We’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives.

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.

No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn’t exist.

Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?