Tim Cook Quotes

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.

The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.

We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s.

Internally, we're focused on building our own technology, leveraging all the momentum that's out there around wearable computing and mobile computing and PC computing. But at the end of the day, all the code we've written and all the invention we've created has been focused on our own tech and our own products.

I want the entire smartphone, the entire Internet, on my wrist.

The data center side of the world is kind of like a solved problem, but you see interesting things happening on the edge with things like cell phones and embedded systems that are becoming really fascinating.

As more and more of our world becomes part of the wireless network, I see the mobile phone becoming a central command station for everything around us.

We wanted to make a wearable of tomorrow that is designed for everyone. I can proudly say Galaxy Gear is tomorrow's state of the art.

We did envision that some day the phone would be so small that you could hang it on your ear or even have it embedded under your skin.

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.

We have created something incredible. You don't need to get your phone out anymore. Gear takes the entirety of your digital world and places it right where you can see.

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

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.

As our smartphone becomes even smarter, mobile technology should actually take the burden out of our daily lives.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

I believe AR is going to be the primary platform of the future for both work and entertainment.

Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe.

I don't subscribe to the idea that everything moves to the network. Theoretically it's possible that everybody will use little hand-held devices to access the Internet, but I expect more of a hybrid environment.

I think with the proliferation of mobile devices and then, eventually, the Internet of Things, we literally have supercomputers in our pockets and supercomputers that will hang on telephone poles and in light bulbs.

We thought our vision was right, which was that someday everyone would be walking around carrying phones with them.