Tim Cook

Biography

CEO of Apple, advocate for privacy and human-centric technology.

Notable Quotes

On Human Capital in Age of AI

"Technology should serve humanity, not the other way around."

—Tim Cook, MIT Commencement Speech (2017), June 9, 2017, Cambridge, MA

On Attention Economy and Information Overload

"Privacy is a fundamental human right."

—Tim Cook, International Conference of Data Protection (2018), October 24, 2018, Brussels

On AI Governance and Regulation

"I'm not worried about artificial intelligence giving computers the ability to think like humans. I'm more concerned about people thinking like computers."

—Tim Cook, University of Glasgow Honorary Degree (2017), February 8, 2017, Glasgow, Scotland

On Innovation Cycles and Market Bubbles

"AR will be as important as eating three meals a day."

—Tim Cook, Irish Examiner Interview (2020), January 20, 2020, Cork, Ireland

On Network Effects and Platform Monopolies

"We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe in saying no to thousands of projects."

—Tim Cook, Goldman Sachs Technology Conference (2019), February 12, 2019, San Francisco

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