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Shawn Fanning

"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."

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"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."

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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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Shawn Fanning
"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."

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Shawn Fanning
"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business."

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Shawn Fanning
"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

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Shawn Fanning
"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

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Shawn Fanning
"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

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

Work

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Shawn Fanning
"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

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Shawn Fanning
"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."

Friendship

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

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Aberjhani

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Aberjhani

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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Aberjhani

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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