A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.
TIM COOKDiscrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.
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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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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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What makes Siri cool is she has a personality.
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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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You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys.
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No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn’t exist.
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They’re gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that’s wrong. And it’s not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.
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The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
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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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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.
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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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Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose. It doesn’t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it shrouds itself within the very laws meant to protect us.
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You are more powerful than you think.
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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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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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