Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

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.

The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'

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

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

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.

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?