Tim Cook Quotes

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

The North Star has always been the same, which for us, is about making insanely great products that really change the world in some way - enrich people's lives.

Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.

A world where people do not care about the quality of their experience is not a good world for Apple. A world where people care about those details and want to complain about them is the world where our values shine.

At Nintendo, we think deeply about everything.

Socialcam shares Autodesk's mission of helping everybody imagine, design, and create a better world.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.

What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.

It's always been about making the best Mac we know how. Among the many benefits are making it easy to use and affordable, with great features.

Innovators are developing the ideas and bringing them to life in amazing new applications. All we, as an industry, need to do now is focus on standardizing the interfaces to ensure interoperability - and stand out of the way.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

Most of the fans have ideas about their perfect phone. But many of them can't do it because building a phone is tough. So they would give us feedback about the features that they think should be included in our next model. And if we incorporated that in our new phone, they will share the good news with their friends.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.