Shawn Fanning Quotes

#1. That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

Shawn Fanning

#2. If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

Shawn Fanning

#3. It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.

Shawn Fanning

#4. There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

Shawn Fanning

#5. Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us ... They still believe in that vision.

Shawn Fanning

#6. He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.

Shawn Fanning

#7. It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time.

Donald Trump Jr.

#8. Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

Ville Valo

#9. Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location, ... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.

Shawn Fanning

#10. Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

Shawn Fanning

#11. I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

Shawn Fanning

#12. I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.

Carmelo Anthony

#13. In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#14. If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

Shawn Fanning

#15. I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup ... I see it getting much prettier.

Shawn Fanning

#16. All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water), can also have the power of beauty.

Martin R. Lemieux

#17. Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not wish to "record," but rather to touch upon the illusive meanings which I perceive and try to comprehend in this limitless universe.

Ruth Bernhard

#18. Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?

Roddy Piper

#19. I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

Shawn Fanning

#20. Only you can make your dreams come true ...or not.

Gavin Mills

#21. Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.

Charles M. Schwab

#22. Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.

Shawn Fanning

#23. It takes a busload of faith to get by.

Lou Reed

#24. But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

Shawn Fanning

#25. Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

Shawn Fanning

#26. I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.

Shawn Fanning

#27. So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours.

Shawn Fanning

#28. Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

Shawn Fanning

#29. I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.

Shawn Fanning

#30. All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.

Sufjan Stevens

#31. We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.

H.G.Wells

#32. Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.

Rob Bell

#33. It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

Shawn Fanning

#34. The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

Orson Pratt