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"If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets."
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"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."
Pretty
"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."
Time
"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business."
Business
"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."
Work
"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."
Time
"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."
Music
"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?"
Success
"I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier."
Work
"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."
Content
"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."
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"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
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Personal Development
"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."
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Personal Development
"Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers."
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Personal Development
"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
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Personal Development
"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed."
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Personal Development
"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."
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Personal Development
"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."
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Personal Development
"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
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Personal Development
"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
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Personal Development
"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."
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