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" To me, what Minecraft represents is more than a hit game franchise. It's this open-world platform. If you think about it, it's the one game parents want their kids to play. "

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" If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft. "

Satya Nadella

Education

Talk

Curiosity

" You've got to remember even the Apple regeneration started with colorful iMacs. So let us first get the colorful iMacs. I think with what we're doing with Lumia, we're at that stage. I want to do good devices that people like, and then we will go on to doing the next thing and the next thing. "

" The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic. "

" If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game. "

" What matters is 'Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?' That's our real goal, and that's what we're going to stay focused on. "

" From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed. "

Satya Nadella

Xbox

Transformed

" I will always be a Hyderabadi. "

Satya Nadella

Always

Will

" I want people on the front line to be proud of what they're doing and give themselves permission to finish things in ways that they can be proud of. "

" 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. "

Satya Nadella

Meeting

Leadership

" If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves? "

" Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap. "

" 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. "

" Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved. "

Satya Nadella

Choices

Journey

" One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies. "

" We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences. "

" When we think about even the PC market and what is required in the student as well as in the consumer market, we want to be able to compete in the opening price point. "

" When we think about Windows, we want to think of it as a broad platform, from wearables to industrial IoT platforms to PCs and tablets. "

" The energy you create around you is perhaps going to be the most important attribute - in the long run, EQ trumps IQ. Without being a source of energy for others, very little can be accomplished. "

" I want everyone inside of Microsoft to take that responsibility. This is not about top-line growth. This is not about bottom-line growth. This is about us individually having a growth mindset. "

" Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it. "

" Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft. "

" We want to be able to service our customers more, like an Internet service. Our goal is to run one of the largest Internet services that enables people to use Windows on an everyday basis. "

" In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics. "

" What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average. "

" Iran is a complete Windows country when it comes to the Office automation side. "

" I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity. "

Satya Nadella

Fall

Capacity

" There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective. "

" Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves. "

" We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft. "

" I cook a very exotic Hyderabadi rice dish called Hyderabadi biryani, which takes an entire day to cook, and the last time I cooked it was multiple years ago, but someday I'll cook it again. "