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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.

Tim Cook

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.
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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.
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I love museums. But I don’t want to live in one.
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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 just want to build great products.
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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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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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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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There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country.
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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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An acorn would never brag about giving shade.
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History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.
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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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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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Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.
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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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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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