Shawn Fanning

Software Quotes

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I think we’re proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary – making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.
‘Authoring tools’ are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.
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.

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Music Quotes


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Music is always a commentary on society.
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
We’re also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.

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School


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I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I’ve been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me – you’re doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can’t just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it’s much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
My youngest daughter sings. She’s going to be very good. She’s graduated from Music School and she’s been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she’s going to be all right.

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Music Quotes


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English music is white – it evades everything.
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
Enya

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Friend Quotes

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It’s rare to be treated like a friend you haven’t met in a Hollywood meeting.
All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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Computer Quotes


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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

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Music Quotes


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Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.
I’m still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they’re 35. Maybe that’s why I make music that is relevant to young people. I’m emotionally stuck at the age of 13.
Music is a gut thing. You’re working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There’s a congregation.
Siobhan Fahey

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