Sam Altman Quotes

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.