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Apple CEO Tim Cook Commemorates the Life of Stephen Hawking
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Gee, I wonder what he could be referring to. How about any single thing that Tim virtue signals about? Climate Change? DACA/Illegal Immigration? H1B Visa Program being revoked? He constantly uses his position as a soapbox to spout off his ideology. He picked this single quote out of hundreds that Hawking has made.
Yeah...2018 officially sucks now. But in the end...he defied all odds of his condition. Dr. Hawking was a huge inspiration to me and one of the many reasons I went into physics and astronomy. I definitely have to say it was absolutely one of the greatest privileges to be able to study his work.
Dr. Hawking...thank you for being an inspiration to so many people. Myself included. I will never have the full understanding of physics like you did...but it's an honor to be in the same field. Many thanks to you, sir. Rest in peace.
Dr. Hawking...thank you for being an inspiration to so many people. Myself included. I will never have the full understanding of physics like you did...but it's an honor to be in the same field. Many thanks to you, sir. Rest in peace.
Or maybe he just sincerely wanted to pay respect to one of the greatest scientists of the 20th and 21st centuries?
How did you come to this conclusion, besides pulling it out of thin air?
Conversely, I kinda doubt MarkB786 really knows much about how much Tim knows (or doesn't know) about Stephen's writings. Just trying to sound cool. And failing....
I was more saddened when Cal Worthington died. Now that was the end of an era!
While I didn't agree with him on religion, I learned a lot from him and am thankful that he could inspire and incite so many people to want to do better.
See you on the other side of the curtain, Stephen.
See you on the other side of the curtain, Stephen.
I’d love to hear Cook provide examples of how Hawkins ideas inspire him. I’m sure cosmology and mathematics play a central part in his life.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has commemorated the life of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who died early Wednesday at the age of 76. "We will always be inspired by his life and ideas," he said on Twitter.
Stephen Hawking via REX/Shutterstock
Hawking was a renowned scientist, cosmologist, astronomer, and mathematician. He authored several books, including his best-selling 1988 classic A Brief History of Time, which has sold more than 10 million copies.
Hawking was diagnosed with the degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at the age of 21. He was given just a few years to live, but battled the illness for more than five decades.
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Or the belief that one could actually recognize an illusion of knowledge.
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You’re in a position to actually quantify this? Or it’s just your opinion?
You don’t know that, he might be a fan, he might of read his books, no one knows because Tim Cook is a private person.
Small people. With a lot of hate in their hearts.
Stephen Hawking was a visionary Tim Cook will never be. Tim Cook is a banker.
Most people on this earth won’t rise to the level of Stephen Hawking. What’s your point? Most people won’t rise to the level of TC either.
Tim Cook hasn’t got a vision except profits. While Stephen Hawking was a great visionary and a great person. That’s my point.
That’s not a point that can be proved and subjective at that. That Tim Cook commemorates Stephen Hawkins is really the point.
Until fairly recently, nobody really cared if a company acknowledged current events or engaged in political activism in any capacity.
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Very Inappropriate to attempt your usual Apple bashing on this post about the passing of a great man!
Yeah, all those arrogant Lucasian Professors of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in England are so stupid.
Not stupid, just ignorant (different from stupid) and blinded by pride.
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That's just one of SH's many writings, and arguably the most simple of them all. Nothing has impressed me about Tim over the past few years, nothing at all. Hence my impression that his eyes glaze over when he attempts to read something as approachable as a Brief History of Time. Can you see Tim fully following Ive in a design meeting? I didn't think so. Me neither. Think eye glaze and power bar munching to look thoughtful.
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