Satya Nadella on the journey to becoming Microsoft's CEO & reimagining technology's impact

Oh, you can’t believe where we are tonight. We’re in Barbara’s home. This place is a very secret penthouse. I’m trying to make it exciting, Barbara, but we have a beautiful view of the park. We’re in the kitchen because Barbara is making me dinner tonight…

So I tried to get Wayne Shorter to express sounds of the universe through jazz, through his saxophone. OK. So I prepped him for a cosmic phenomenon to see how he—can he roll with it. Uh-oh. This is going to be deep. Let’s check it out. I want to describe…

So this is your brain. Say hi! Okay, it’s a representation of your brain. Brains don’t have hands; they have lobes and other structures, which we’ll get to. But I want to talk to you about your brain. You see, your brain is capable of incredible things. …

Have you ever dealt with tenants? Mine was the first tenant I ever rented to. Though he explained to me that his wife was the one who worked, so all the income ran through her bank account. His credit was really bad; her credit was bad. But I just figured…

So I’m going to tell you a very not super deep into any one topic but very broad brush sense of the kinds of things we’ve been using deep learning for the kinds of systems we’ve built around making deep learning faster. This is joint work with many, many,…

I was actually walking by one day. I look over and I see ping pong balls in the air. I said, “Wow, tables!” Sometimes you come out of work and there you have the tables. Then, like your buddies, they’re waiting for you to come and get the spits out. I tak…