Tim Cook Quotes

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.

Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

We all know that mobile's going to change the world.

Our successes have been so great and so rapid that, within 20 years, we've gotten a third of the world's population online, shrunk our computers to the size of our hands, and connected each to each.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

Nobody ever imagined how quickly the Android mobile-phone platform would take off - not even Andy Rubin, the Silicon Valley engineer who created it.

Now, with the Internet, you're either five years ahead or you're five years behind, and the music game is catchin' up right now.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.