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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.

Tim Cook

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
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Achieve Deceive Hard Other Success Themselves Ultimately Work Worse
We make the best phone, we don’t make the most phones.
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Best Make Most Phone
I don’t own encryption, Apple doesn’t own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.
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Apple Encryption Everywhere Fact Funded Government Some
Security isn’t just a feature, it’s a base, it’s a fundamental, right.
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Base Feature Fundamental Just Right Security
A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.
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Allow Dozen Introduce Legislation More People Person State Think Wave
You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.
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Barries Focus Problem Redefine Scale Thing
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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Able Anyway Buy Card Credit Encryption Keftm Right Money Online Ripped
We can’t take all of our energy and all of our care and finish the painting, then have someone else put their name on it.
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Care Energy Finish Name Painting Someone
Where we might go in the future, we’ll see. Customers love games. I’m not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger.
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Bigger Business Customer Future Game Interest Make might Today Traditional
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.
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Ability Camera Enforcement May Turn
In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.
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Arc Constoemr Long Love Relevant Time
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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I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.
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No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don’t shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics.
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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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App Companies From Hard Innovating Innovation List Look Point Press Small View
In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.
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Last Paint Security Target Thing World
I am who I am, and I’m focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.
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We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day.
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Nobody wants to buy sour milk.
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Buy Milk Nobody Sour Want
You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
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Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.
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Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open.
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Today, we are pleased to announce the biggest advancement in iPhone.
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Advancement Announce Biggest iPhone Please Today
In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.
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America is always stronger when we do things together.
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Always Country Stronger Thing Together
Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those.
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Apple Pay is forever changing the way we pay for things.
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Apple Change Forever Pay Thing Way

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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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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