Shawn Fanning Quotes

Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.

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

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.

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

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

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.

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.

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?

I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.