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Satya Nadella

"With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time."

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"With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time."

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"If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life."
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"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."
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"The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?"
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"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."
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"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."
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