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Tim Cook
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 1
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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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Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.
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From our point of view it's important that Apple not be the developer for the world. 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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You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.
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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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There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.
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Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.
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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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You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
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The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.
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Nobody wants to buy sour milk.
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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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Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.
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Without encryption, you and I wouldn't be able to do our banking online. 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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Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.
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Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open. Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love.
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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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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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Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.
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With hacking getting more and more sophisticated, the hacking community has gone from the hobbyist in the basement to huge sophisticated companies that are essentially doing this, or groups of people or foreign agents inside and outside the United States.
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