Quotes from Satya Nadella

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

Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.

I am absolutely thrilled to have the Xbox franchise.

We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.

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.

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.

As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin America, top of mind for everybody is how do they drive growth for their business going forward.

The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.

There are always going to be people who are experts in security or end-user devices or collaboration or databases. That's not going to go away. But what's the reason all of these professions come together? To help the business transform itself.

From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.

In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.

We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique.

There are nine million servers sold annually. Of those, just one million are sourced by the big guys. What we're trying to predict is: in the future, is that all going into the one million category? Or will there be some balance?

My ambition with connectivity is not to fly balloons in the national airspace of other countries, but my dream is to be able to enable the local entrepreneurs to have low-cost connectivity solutions.