Tim Cook Quotes

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

The decision makers at HUD appear to have carried the reduction of paperwork to the extreme. There are practically no records.

… science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race....

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.

My message is, if you need help, ask for it.

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty."

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

Those who violate classification rules will be held responsible to the fullest extent of the law, something which we don't do too much anymore.

The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store.

The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.

We need missionaries to match our message.

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.