I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.

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.

It's clear why hacking communities are [growing]. Because it's like, there's a lot more gold there. There's a lot more to steal than ever before.

You can't have a back door that's only for the good guys.

The reality is that if you - let's say you just pulled encryption. Let's ban it. Let's you and I ban it tomorrow. And so we sit in Congress and we say, thou shalt not have encryption. What happens then? Well, I would argue that the bad guys will use encryption from non-American companies, because they're pretty smart.

Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.

Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.