Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.
SATYA NADELLAOur industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.
SATYA NADELLAIf 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.
SATYA NADELLAThat’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.
SATYA NADELLABe passionate and bold.
SATYA NADELLAThis is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places – as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.
SATYA NADELLAThe way I measure my life is ‘Am I better than I was last year?’
SATYA NADELLAThis is a software-powered world.
SATYA NADELLABe passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.
SATYA NADELLAI think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.
SATYA NADELLAI sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.
SATYA NADELLAOne of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.
SATYA NADELLAOur 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.
SATYA NADELLAEvery 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.
SATYA NADELLAYou’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.
SATYA NADELLAWhat was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.
SATYA NADELLAThis notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we’re now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.
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