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

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.

This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.

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.

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.

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