Shawn Fanning

“I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is a good thing. It's forcing the music industry to knock down a lot of incredibly high barriers on strangleholds that they've had on distribution and all that stuff.”

“I was using the Internet since I was a kid. I was on message boards and things. I was a normal kid.”

“The goal wasn't to create a company. It was to build a community.”

“That's one of the things I love about the Internet is that you can be a relative unknown and be heard.”

“With Napster, we were changing the way people get music, and we're changing the way people listen to music, and we're changing the way the music industry is going to work.”

“We really just wanted a way to find all the MP3s that were out there... I didn't have a clue what I was getting into.”

“The idea behind it was to create a community of people who were interested in the same kind of music.”

“I didn't have a lot of friends. I was kind of a geek. I was a computer nerd. I did not have a girlfriend.”