When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.

I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.

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.

I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.

I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

And that's what everyone at Apple is focused on - pushing forward and creating the future.