Hit Refresh

by Satya Nadella

The first principle is to compete vigorously and with passion in the face of uncertainty and intimidation.

you must always have respect for your competitor, but don’t be in awe. Go and compete.

Leadership means making choices and then rallying the team around those choices.

We sometimes underestimate what we each can do to make things happen, and overestimate what others need to do for us. We had to get out of the mode of thinking in which we assume that others have more power over us than we do.

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Constraints are real and will always be with us, but leaders are the champions of overcoming constraints. They make things happen.

computer pioneer Alan Kay quips, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” In the AI context, he’s basically saying, Stop predicting what the future will be like; instead, create it in a principled way.

AI is becoming a third run time—the next system on top of which programmers will build and execute applications. The PC was the first run time for which Microsoft developed applications like the Office suite of tools—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the rest. Today the Web is the second run time.

Today we don’t think of aviation as “artificial flight”—it’s simply flight. In the same way, we shouldn’t think of technological intelligence as artificial, but rather as intelligence that serves to augment human capabilities and capacities.