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 COOKI don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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We’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives.
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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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People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.
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Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.
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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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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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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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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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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 say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose…..It’s not just saying yes to the right products, it’s saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as the other ones.
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You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys.
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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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You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.
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We make the best phone, we don’t make the most phones.
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Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love.
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