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.

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.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

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

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

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.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.