"I had to actually purchase a book to……" — Shawn Fanning
"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."
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21 Quotes by Shawn Fanning
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- If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.
- Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.
- I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from…
- That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent…
- But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system…
- There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think…
- If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that.…
- I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system…
- Napster works because people who love music share and participate.
- Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one…
- Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.
- It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton…
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