So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate - when a particular course of action just feels right.

If you're worried about messaging, people will just move to something else. You know if you legislate against Facebook and Apple and Google and whatever else in the US, they'll just use something else. So are we really safer then? I would say no. I would say we're less safe, because now we've opened up all of the infrastructure for people to go wacko at.

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

Our competition is different. They're confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they're trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they'll do next?

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