Sam Altman Quotes

The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is.

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.

Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman dependent upon him economically as the only method open to him of making himself necessary to her. Since in the beginning woman would not become his willing slave, he has wrought through the centuries a society in which woman must serve him if she is to survive.

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

The fact is, we need help, and we need each other.

Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

People only believe what they discover for themselves. We need to have civil discussions, and look at what the facts and the truth are.

Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat.

We need to find a fair and viable solution on the basis of U.N. resolutions and the incompatible with the fact that Cyprus is an E.U. member state.

The reality of the situation is life on Earth has not changed. We need facts, we need events, we need specifics on things.

Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.

You don't need people's opinion on a fact.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

All organizations are hierarchical. At each level people serve under those above them. An organization is therefore a structured institution. If it is not structured, it is a mob. Mobs do not get things done, they destroy things.

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a big complicated system through barter, through converting one commodity into another. You need a monetary system to operate. And the instability in that monetary system is devastating to the performance of the economy.