Satya Nadella Quotes

We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

I always want to be on the cutting edge.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Always challenge the old ways.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

If it works, it's obsolete.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.