14 DAY TRIAL // Apple’s CEO Tim Cook couldn’t help but make fun of Microsoft’s Windows operating system at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he delivered the 2017 opening speech.
Trying to explain to students that it’s sometimes difficult to find the purpose of life, Tim Cook referred to some past episodes where he experienced all kinds of things, only to figure out his vision.
“I tried meditation. I sought guidance and religion. I read great philosophers and authors. In a moment of youthful indiscretion, I might even have experimented with a Windows PC. And obviously that didn't work,” he said.
Cook previously worked for IBM and Compaq
Tim Cook then went on to provide advice to students, also adding that Steve Jobs and Apple helped him find his purpose.
“I was never going to find my purpose working some place without a clear sense of purpose of its own. Steve and Apple freed me to throw myself into the work and embrace their mission and make it my own. How can I serve humanity? This is life's biggest and most important question,” he said.
“Always remember there is no idea bigger than this: as Dr. Martin Luther King said, we are all bound together in a single garment of destiny. If you keep that idea at the forefront of all that you do, if you choose to live your lives at that intersection between technology and the people it serves, if you strive to create the best, give the best, and do the best for everyone - not just for some - then today all of humanity has good cause for hope.”
Tim Cook joined Apple in March 1998 after previously working for Compaq for a total of six months. Just after graduating from Auburn University, Cook spent no less than 12 years in IBM’s personal computer division, becoming the company’s director of North American operations. He was appointed CEO of Apple in August 2011.
