Tim Quotes

My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be.

And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.

Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!

A journey is measured in friends, not miles.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.

My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.

The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.

An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquillity.

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn’t know it.

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

Technology is for us. All of us. People who carry things.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished.

Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn't exist.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

Everybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.

America is always stronger when we do things together.

Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.

We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.

Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.

If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.

The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.

I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff.

I don't think Apple has to own a content business.

If I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these.

Security isn't just a feature, it's a base, it's a fundamental, right.

That brings us to iPad. We think the iPad is the poster-child of the post-PC world.

Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.

In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.