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.
Satya NadellaRead
We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the purpose of hardware as a medium for expressing software capabilities rather than an end goal in itself.
Satya Nadella's quote highlights that the focus in technology development should not simply be on creating hardware for its own sake, but rather on leveraging hardware as a means to effectively deliver unique software solutions that enhance productivity and user experience. It underscores the idea that hardware and software must work synergistically to provide true value and innovation.
Themes
HardwareSoftwareTechnologyProductivityInnovation
In practice
Example use cases
In a tech conference about the future of computing, this quote can emphasize the importance of software development.
More from Satya Nadella
All quotes βYou look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete.
Satya NadellaRead
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.
Satya NadellaRead
If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.
Satya NadellaRead
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.
Satya NadellaRead
At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.
Satya NadellaRead
Similar quotes
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
Marshall McluhanRead
From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.
Dan RatherRead
Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.
Richard StallmanRead
It is deeply against my principles to work on any project that I think is to weaponize AI.
Fei-Fei LiRead
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.
Douglas AdamsRead
The ability of businesses to monitor our behavior is already a fact of life, and it isn't going away. Of course we must protect our privacy rights. But if we're smart, we'll also use the data that is being collected to improve our own lives.
Richard ThalerRead