Satya Nadella Quotes

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

I think everybody understands how important the cloud is.

First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud.

This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.

I am convinced that as we move more towards cloud services, there is going to be a greater need for connectivity.

The enterprise cloud is a very secure cloud at this point.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud... the ground is shifting.

Remember, the Cloud is just someone else's server.

The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all the parties involved. It can't be broken by any of them. It's cryptographically too strong. You would have to compromise the entire network to take over Bitcoin.

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.

Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.

We have, of course, all of our Oracle technologies in our cloud. But I don't think you're going to see customers wanting to deal with 50 clouds or 40 clouds or anything like that.

I'm a very big proponent of cloud. We've used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we can tell, it is not only more efficient, it's probably also more secure for lots of very complicated technical reasons. I think it's a very important thing for government to do, and also to have systems that talk to each other.

I'm not claiming that we are the only guys who are going to succeed in the cloud. Others can succeed as well, just like in the previous generation.

'The cloud' is effectively an augmentation of our brains' memories.

There's nothing slowing down about the shift to the cloud. I don't see anything on the horizon that is changing that.

The beautiful part of the cloud is, you know, it's unlimited capacity, in theory.

The cloud scalability is just amazing. So if you are, as an example, an NGO, a social enterprise, if you really want to scale the world, the cloud is just amazing.

The debate between the cloud and on-premise is largely dead. The cloud has become mainstream.