The way I measure my life is ‘Am I better than I was last year?’
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.
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One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.
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The best work happens when you know that it’s not just work, but something that will improve other people’s lives.
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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.
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In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications.
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What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.
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Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
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Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example — it is the world’s best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem.
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I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.
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Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work.
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That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.
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This 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.
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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.
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Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.
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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.
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You’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.
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