Cook was chosen for his role as a "trailblazer" in championing innovation, MIT said in a statement. Cook said joining Apple — under Steve Jobs' strong vision — lifted a "psychological burden," freeing him to indulge in work that served humanity.
This is life's biggest and most important question," Cook said. We both love hard problems, we love to search for new ideas, and we especially love finding these ideas — the ones that change the world," Cook said.
Today at MIT -- congratulations graduates! It was the most incredible meeting of my life. This is a man who has spent more time comforting the inflicted in slums than with heads of state.
This may surprise you, but he knew an unbelievable amount about technology. It was obvious to me that he had thought deeply about it. Its opportunity. Its risks. Its morality. What he said to me at that meeting, what he preached, really, was on a topic that we care a lot about at Apple. But he expressed a shared concern in a powerful new way: Never has humanity had such power over itself, yet nothing ensures it will be used wisely, he has said. And yet the potential adverse consequences are spreading faster and cutting deeper.
The threats to security, threats to privacy, fake news, and social media that becomes antisocial. Sometimes the very technology that is meant to connect us divides us. Technology is capable of doing great things. That part takes all of us. It takes our values and our commitment to our families and our neighbors and our communities, our love of beauty and belief that all of our faiths are interconnected, our decency, our kindness.
That is what we need you to help us guard against. As Steve once said, technology alone is not enough. It is technology married with the liberal arts married with the humanities that make our hearts sing.
When you keep people at the center of what you do, it can have an enormous impact. It means an iPhone that allows the blind person to run a marathon.
It means an Apple Watch that catches a heart condition before it becomes a heart attack. It means an iPad that helps a child with autism connect with his or her world. In short, it means technology infused with your values, making progress possible for everyone. Whatever you do in your life, and whatever we do at Apple, we must infuse it with the humanity that each of us is born with.
That responsibility is immense, but so is the opportunity. We are all counting on you. There is so much out there conspiring to make you cynical. The internet has enabled so much and empowered so many, but it can also be a place where basic rules of decency are suspended and pettiness and negativity thrive.
Measure your impact in humanity not in the likes, but the lives you touch; not in popularity, but in the people you serve. I found that my life got bigger when I stopped carrying about what other people thought about me. You will find yours will too. Stay focused on what really matters. There will be times when your resolve to serve humanity will be tested.
Be prepared. That would obviously solve a big chunk of the problem. First of all, my friends believe in me for reasons entirely unrelated to MIT. Frankly, the admissions process is a big crapshoot. And the rest of my peers? And my teachers? The ones who took the time to write me letters of recommendation? I was worried that THEY would think less of me? They KNOW how awesome their student is, and are trying to make the school understand. And my family? Yeah, they would probably be worried about my mental state, and scramble to find a way to comfort me.
My stomach twisted up whenever I tried to actually imagine what it would be like to have people around me offering sympathy. I had rehearsed the scenario enough times in my head that I felt prepared. On the day, I woke up at 2am England time to check decisions, and was perfectly calm.
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