When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

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.

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

Most people have a very strong sense of organizational ownership, but I think what people have to own is an innovation agenda, and everything is shared in terms of the implementation.

The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation - it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

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

In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.

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

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth.

It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

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

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.

Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.

Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.

As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin America, top of mind for everybody is how do they drive growth for their business going forward.

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.

I think reconceptualizing Microsoft as a devices and services company is absolutely what our vision is all about. Office 365 and Azure on the services side are representative of it.

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

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

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.

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

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.

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.

You 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.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

India for sure is a mobile-first country. But I don't think it will be a mobile-only country for all time. An emerging market will have more computing in their lives, not less computing, as there is more GDP and there is more need. As they grow, they will also want computers that grow from their phone.

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.

I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.

I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.

Never is my life have I ever experienced anything as crazy as this.

I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters. If you could all please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.

Ive always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.

I love New York, it's always been my home. It has everything - music, fashion, entertainment, impressive buildings, huge parks, street cafes. And it's very international, with people from all over the world.

Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.

It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support.

I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.

Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.

I'm a big Backstreet Boys fan. I always give y'all shoutouts. I love the things y'all do.

I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis.

Nearly every black man faces an unacceptable level of violence in this society. I'm not different. Money can shield you; it can protect you. But it doesn't make you white.