You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.

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.

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.

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.

This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

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

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?