Sam Altman Quotes

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

Novelty always sparks ideas.

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

We should have more invention.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.