“I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.”

Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.

If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.

Nobody wants to buy sour milk.

Everybody doesn’t want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

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.

Apple Stores Offer the Best Buying Experience and Customer Service On The Planet

I don’t think Apple has to own a content business.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for.

Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.

You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys.

I love museums. But I don’t want to live in one.

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

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.

Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

The distinction between right and wrong (“la distinction du bien et du mal”, Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

These are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.

Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me – it was the sublime quality of patience – patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment – which I sadly lacked.

I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that’s relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.