A biography for Satya Nadellahasn’t been written yet.
“I want people on the front line to be proud of what they're doing and give themselves permission to finish things in ways that they can be proud of.”
“The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.”
“With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.”
“If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.”
“Most people have a very strong sense of organizational ownership, but I think what people have to own is an innovation agenda, and everything is shared in terms of the implementation.”
“Microsoft loves Linux.”
“Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.”
“I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.”
“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.”
“Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.”