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.

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.

Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?

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

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.

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

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