There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to one's journey through life.

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

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.

When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

All of us in social media and regular media, we're all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it.

Technology is always a double-edged sword.

I used to have a five-year plan when I was younger. But that’s changed. Technology is changing every day. So you have to live in the day. You have to see what the opportunities are, and go for them."