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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 best code is poetry.

Satya Nadella

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Satya Nadella
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 19
Businessperson
Chief Executive Officer
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Hyderabad
India
Bukkapuram Nadella Satyanarayana
Satya Narayana Nadella
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