“You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you’re successful, sometimes your not, but it’s the average that counts.”

What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.

Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish.

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications.

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can’t really look at every failure as a failure, you’ve got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

I marvel every day at how people can excel – and that’s what really gets me going.

Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on.

The best work happens when you know that it’s not just work, but something that will improve other people’s lives.

Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there’s someone new who’s born with a new idea.

A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says ‘Something Happened’. Well, that’s not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One.

That’s the kind of person that I want to trust. That’s the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.’

This is a software-powered world.

Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.

Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.

Believability and respect are two of the main ingredients in professional wrestling that are sorely missing today.

If I’m gonna play a character in a movie or if I want to be the lead of a film, you wanna carry the guy, you wanna get the girl, you wanna save the day or the world.

A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

I can’t tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that’s what I call a vacation.

I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life, The day You became my Friend, I have not slept – And even if You drive me from your door, I swear again that we will never be separated – Because You are alive in my heart

I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.

People listened to Farsi texts, and to the great texts of our Baba Bulleh Shah, Khwaja Ghulam Farid, Mian Mohammad Bakhsh Jehlmi. People do listen to it these days, but much less than in those days.