265 Quotes by Tim Cook

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

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

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

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