New Delhi: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, during his third visit to India after taking charge of the tech giant, on Monday quoted one of the finest poets of all time Mirza Ghalib, highlighting his love for poetry along with computer science.
Everyone present to hear the MS boss got elated when Nadella quoted Ghalib's famous lines, "Hazaaron khwahishen aisi ke har khwahish pe dam nikle, Bahut niklay mere armaan, lekin phir bhi kam nikle."
The couplet translates, "Thousands of aspirations such, that each aspiration takes your breath away... I had many dreams, but they still weren't enough."
Nadella quoted the poet while advising young aspirants to stay ambitious and bold in order to achieve their dream of becoming the Microsoft CEO in future.
It is worth a mention that Hyderabad-born Nadella enjoys both American and Indian poetry.
“It’s like code,” he said, according to the Microsoft’s website. “You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression.”
The top boss of the global technology giant was in Delhi to launch Microsoft India’s ‘Tech for Good, Ideas for India.’
Speaking about technology and praising the talent present in India, Nadella started the speech by
"I learn something new... there are so many layers there... My interpretation of that is... it's not just your dreams being fulfilled, it is your ability to dream that is worth dying for. It is a source of inspiration," he said.
Talking about the changing landscape of technology, Nadella said the "idea of conversations as a platform" is a transformative change in computing.
"When you change the way you see the world, you change the world you see," Nadella added.
Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha, who was also present at the event, said technology is a platform of growth for India.
"If you innovate in India for India, you are going to be able to innovate for the world and India then can become the entrepreneurial engine for the next 6 billion people on the planet just like the US is the entrepreneurial engine for the top one billion people... That's the opportunity we have, and that is India's economic future," he stressed.
(With PTI Inputs)
