I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

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.

There's a lot of health information available on your smart phone. There's financial information. There's your conversations, there's business secrets. There's an enormous long list of things that there's probably more information about you on here than exists in your home, right. Which makes it a lot more valuable to all the bad guys out there.

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

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 not targeting government. I'm not saying hey, I'm closing it because I don't want to give you any data. I'm saying that to protect out customers, we have to encrypt. And a side affect of that is, I don't have the data.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.