The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you’re an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.
TIM COOKSo I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It drew on the moral sense that I’d learned from my parents, and in church, and in my own heart, and led me on my own journey of discovery.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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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’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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Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.
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We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.
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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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Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.
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For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.
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Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.
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I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for.
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The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
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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.
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There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country.
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You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
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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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Today, we are pleased to announce the biggest advancement in iPhone.
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We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.
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No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn’t exist.
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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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I love museums. But I don’t want to live in one.
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I don’t think Apple has to own a content business.
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From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you’d be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.
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I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.
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America is always stronger when we do things together.
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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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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 am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is.
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