Cook is Spock: low-key, cerebral, methodical. He’s the Apollonian counterpart to Kirk, the Dionysian hothead. Kirk is impulsive—but nobody would deny that he, not Spock, should be captain of the ship.
— Newsweek’s Dan Lyons draws a Trek analogy for the relationship between Apple’s COO Tim Cook and erstwhile CEO Steve Jobs. (via John Gruber)