[ariana82]

That is true, but at least he said: "you don't need a college degree to be successful _but_ education is very important", because lazy students around the world and hypocrite-people who don't have university degree _& actually want to have it one but unfortunately can't_ will use his words as an excuse.

Cook has to remember, without academic research there will be no cutting edge technology like chip or processor that support hitech company like Apple. He should be wiser.