If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life.
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.
In our business, things look like a failure until they’re not. It’s pretty binary transitions.
It’s not about the failure, it’s about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.
Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.
We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.
Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.
LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.
The thing I’m most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?
One thing we’ve talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what’s the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.
We’ve had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It’s going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.
We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop.
Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.
I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.
Culture change means we will do things differently.