Steven Sinofsky Quotes

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

Steven Sinofsky

• Games
• Expectations
• Collaboration

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

Steven Sinofsky

• Moment
• Conversation
• Disruption

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.

Steven Sinofsky

• Blessings
• Microsoft
• Professionalism

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

Steven Sinofsky

• Technology
• Innovation
• Disruption

I've always advocated using the break between product cycles as an opportunity to reflect and to look ahead, and that applies to me, too.

Steven Sinofsky

• Opportunity
• Break
• Product

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

Steven Sinofsky

• Share
• Structure
• Complex

I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every day we do more stuff.

Steven Sinofsky

• Work
• Feel
• Build

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

Steven Sinofsky

• Truth
• Name
• Print

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.

Steven Sinofsky

• Path
• Assumption
• Resource

From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.

Steven Sinofsky

• Technology
• Development
• Key