Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.
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More Tim Cook Quotes
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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.
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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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A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.
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Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.
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If I’m expected to keep your messages, and everybody else’s, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these.
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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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I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I’m willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero.
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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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From our point of view it’s important that Apple not be the developer for the world.
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Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.
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Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.
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A great product isn’t just a collection of features. It’s how it all works together.
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You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.
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I don’t think Apple has to own a content business.
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You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys.
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You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
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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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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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Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
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So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.
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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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America is always stronger when we do things together.
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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.
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I’m a country boy at the end of the day. I’m going to pick up the phone and tell you I’m going to sue you.
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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.
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