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List of Shawn Fanning Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 13 inspiring quotes by Shawn Fanning.

About Shawn Fanning

  • Born: November 22, 1980
  • Occupation: Programmer
    • 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.
    Receiving Beta Stage
    I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the ui cleanup... i see it getting much prettier.
    Thinking Term
    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.
    Thinking Media Brilliant
    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.
    Thinking Mp3 Media
    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?
    Successful Musician Doe
    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.
    Thinking Numbers People
    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.
    Regret School Ideas
    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.
    Thinking Ideas Issues
    Napster works because people who love music share and participate.
    People Napster Music Love
    Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.
    Design Today Clients
    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.
    Media Space People
    If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.
    Thinking Computer Antisocial
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