Satya Nadella Quotes

We definitely have a Wii U. It gets pulled out whenever there's a new great game coming out.

I'm big into the PlayStation 2. From what I've heard, the Xbox is the better system, but I can't get used to that controller.

Look at how many times we've improved on the Game Boy Advance in terms of the look, the feel, screen changes, and everything else. We believe that type of constant innovation is critical to driving this industry, and certainly if you look at the world wide sales of Game Boy Advance, I don't think anyone would disagree.

I would say the greatest challenge we had with the Wii U was being crystal clear in our communication of what the product was and what the product could do.

You don't own a 3DS? What's wrong with you?

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

We're changing the world with technology.

Having made up my mind, I went to see Steve [Jobs]. I brought a hand-drawn sketch with me, and I said, "Please make something like this." He said, "Don't show me such an ugly design sketch." But he also said, "You've got the right idea. I totally agree that the time has come when we can make the ultimate mobile machine."

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

If you want our world-known names, you can't have them unless you own the Nintendo machine.

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.