"It's not really about asking for the raise, but knowing, and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises, as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional super powers, that quite frankly, women who don't ask for a raise have. Because that's good karma, it'll come back! Because somebody's going to know, 'That's the kind of person, that I want trust.'"

He's assigning good karma to a lack of assertiveness in women.

A mashable article on the topic: http://mashable.com/2014/10/09/microsoft-ceo-women-karma-rai...