Sam Altman Quotes

Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.

My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.

The Internet is far more engaging as an interactive medium than broadcast. Barriers to creating content are going away; they're almost gone. People are taking control of their entertainment. People are Tweeting, posting on Facebook and YouTube.

The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.

The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it's less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity - who cares?

In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

It's amazing what social media has done for entertainment.

Twitter can make a lot of things happen if you get enough retweets.

I love participatory media, collective knowledge systems, user-generated content and the like, and spent much of my life and career participating in them and making them.

The complexity of social media is akin to biology. It is not a coincidence that we speak of things going viral. Figuring out what is going on with these new platforms, what is harmful, what is beneficial, is as challenging as determining what is best for our health.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.

What turns teenagers on more than the Internet these days? If you can get a language out there, the youngsters are much more likely to think it's cool.

I have a huge underground following on the web.

I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

Social media is here to stay, and the social phenomenon that is bringing this about is consumers' willingness to share more about themselves, share more about what they're doing... people are even willing to disclose where they're at. And this phenomenon is going to create huge commerce opportunities on the web.

Photos were seen as the most private type of content, and 'Instagram' really flipped that on its head and said photos can be really public.

Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning.

I think reviews have lost a lot of their importance now because of the Internet; everyone is experiencing things at the same time.

The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing.

We want to be like a YouTube for viral images.

OK, I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube in the year after it began. No one was. But its growth was remarkably rapid.

With social media, if you have a viral video people can like what you do and it's homegrown and very organic.