Latest Tim Cook Quotes from Interviews

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• Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.

  Tim Cook

  Fall, House, Important

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• Everybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

  Tim Cook

  People, Desire, Want

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.

  Tim Cook

  Apples, Great American, Company

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• It's clear why hacking communities are [growing]. Because it's like, there's a lot more gold there. There's a lot more to steal than ever before.

  Tim Cook

  Community, Gold, Growing

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

  Tim Cook

  Philosophy, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• There's a lot of health information available on your smart phone. There's financial information. There's your conversations, there's business secrets. There's an enormous long list of things that there's probably more information about you on here than exists in your home, right. Which makes it a lot more valuable to all the bad guys out there.

  Tim Cook

  Smart, Home, Phones

  Source: time.com

• America is always stronger when we do things together.

  Tim Cook

  America, Together, Stronger

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• Security isn't just a feature, it's a base, it's a fundamental, right.

  Tim Cook

  Fundamentals, Features, Security

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• 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.

  Tim Cook

  Mean, Data, Mountain

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

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  Government, Liberty, Should

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• If I know what your messages are, if I can read those, I'll probably be able to conclude where you're going, who you're with, the location the message was sent.

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  Able, Location, Messages

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn't exist.

  Tim Cook

  Keys, Should Have, Locks

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

  Tim Cook

  Target, World, Want

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• If I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these.

  Tim Cook

  Law, Needs, Messages

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• 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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  Would Be, Cards, Encryption

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• 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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  Reading, Want, Stuff

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• I'm not targeting government. I'm not saying hey, I'm closing it because I don't want to give you any data. I'm saying that to protect out customers, we have to encrypt. And a side affect of that is, I don't have the data.

  Tim Cook

  Government, Data, Giving

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.

  Tim Cook

  Running, Data, People

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• 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.

  Tim Cook

  People, Community, Groups

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• If you're worried about messaging, people will just move to something else. You know if you legislate against Facebook and Apple and Google and whatever else in the US, they'll just use something else. So are we really safer then? I would say no. I would say we're less safe, because now we've opened up all of the infrastructure for people to go wacko at.

  Tim Cook

  Moving, Apples, People

  Source: time.com

• The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

  Tim Cook

  War, Reality, Thinking

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• 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.

  Tim Cook

  Government, Apples, Encryption

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• The reality is that if you - let's say you just pulled encryption. Let's ban it. Let's you and I ban it tomorrow. And so we sit in Congress and we say, thou shalt not have encryption. What happens then? Well, I would argue that the bad guys will use encryption from non-American companies, because they're pretty smart.

  Tim Cook

  Smart, Reality, Guy

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

• I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

  Tim Cook

  Zero, Giving Up, Believe

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 10, 2016.

• 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, I'm a country boy at the end of the day. I'm going to pick up the phone and tell you I'm going to sue you.

  Tim Cook

  Country, Boys, Phones

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.