“Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.” IfsMindWould BeSongRecordsThousandYeahSellsUnhappySellingTradingCollectingCdsDownloads Author:Ian MacKaye
“In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.” HumansCoursesStarsPersonalityAspectProgramMachinesOriginalsNotionHarvestDownloadsHuman Personality Author:Poul Anderson
“This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.” NeedsYearsProblemTechnologyToo MuchSubjectsExampleComfortablePhotographyToolsCamerasConversionMediumsSettlingRemarkableDigitalSoftwareUsersStableGood WorkTypewritersGood ExamplesPlugsFadsDownloadsPhotoshopNever SettleDigital Photography Author:Alec Soth
“You download it for free, we get charged back for it. I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it, Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit." So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob, And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?” IfsKnowsWould BeJobsPayMissingCoupleHip HopRapThievesCornAlrightDownloadsKernelCorn On The Cob Author:Andre Benjamin
“We're living at a time when attention is the new currency: With hundreds of TV channels, billions of Web sites, podcasts, radio shows, music downloads and social networking, our attention is more fragmented than ever before.” ShowsSocialBusinessAttentionTvsRadioSocial MediaBillionsCurrencySiteNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkDownloadsFragmented Author:Pete Cashmore
“We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks... With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?” WorldNeedsEnoughPastStrongStuffSecretShareInformationMessagesAddAround The WorldCopiesJournalFilesOpposingCopyrightDownloadsArchivesDatabasesPrivatizationFile Sharing Author:Aaron Swartz
“Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.” PeopleWayHardWholeFactsSongCompanyRecordsAlbumsBuyingRecord CompaniesDownloadsGood Living Author:Dimebag Darrell
“There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.” IfsYearsTwoArtistTermCompanyRecordsGrowingHugeAmountRateCurrentsLabelsContributionTwo YearsPublishingCompensationDissentMusic BusinessDownloadsStreamingRecord LabelsBrewingItunesSubscriptionSpotifyRecorded Music Author:Sean Parker
“Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.” GivingSometimesEnoughBigsAudienceMythologyFrustratedConfusingChunksDownloads Author:Damon Lindelof
“I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.” PeopleThinkingWholeIndividualAttentionWatchesTrackAlbumsDisappearLoanDrawersDvdsPlugsAttention SpanDownloadsItunesShort Attention Spans Author:Ian Anderson
“When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.” WantGivingMotherToolsFaultsMicrosoftPromptsDownloadsDisingenuous Author:Bruce Schneier
“It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.” HardComputerSizeDownloads Author:Chris Cooper
“This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though it doesn't have room to download the other person into it's brain. It cannot understand the other person, even though it tries to. So he ends up overflowing with knowledge.” TryingPersonsEndsRoomsBrainLessonsDownloads Author:The Rev
“Early Apple machines - don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again.” KnowsTryingProblemMemoriesAnswersKnow HowProgramToolsMachinesSymbolsApplesAgain And AgainPatchesTry AgainDownloadsDebugging Author:Bob Frankston
“Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.” PeopleIdeasWholeCertainSongBehindsAudienceFocusRadioAlbumsCherriesDownloadsImpetusBandwidth Author:Todd Rundgren
“No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.” WritingHardArtistMusicHard WorkStealingLikesCopiesDownloadsRecording Music Author:Gary Wright
“The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.” WayStoriesArtistTechnologyPlayerChangedDevelopmentIndustryPianoDigitalDevicesTapeConsumedCdsMusic IndustryFormatVinylDownloadsDiscsCassettesPlayer PianoCassette TapesDevelopment Of Technology Author:Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
“You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries. And so we expect that the big enterprise people will just do that and we will certainly be providing binaries that have been through full industrial-strength QA, that have been through all the conformance testing.” PeopleKnowsWorldHas BeensUseBigsSourceProgrammingEnterpriseSoftwareProvidingTestingDownloadsOpen SourceOpen Source Software Author:James Gosling
“You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.” MomentsEnergyWishYou ChooseDownloads Author:Marianne Williamson
“If you could download the entire universe in two minutes, would you?” IfsTwoUniverseMinutesDownloads Author:Jason Silva
“I don't believe every download is a lost sale.” BelieveLostDon't BelieveDownloads Author:Jeff Tweedy
“I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.” WatchesGeekIphoneDownloadsNetflix Author:Miles Teller
“I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.” IfsNeedsBookFunctionInventionTechnologicalBetter OffReservedTextbooksSupplementsDownloadsUpdates Author:Art Spiegelman
“Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.” WorldWayWantLooksArtCultureChurchStyleInformationSourcePagesDrawsEarsMarkRemainsFolksScreensDrawingBest WayObsessionMagazinesLandscapeVisualsPensOur ThoughtsInteriorsHelloAdaptedDownloadsInsertReplicateFolk Art Author:Grayson Perry
“For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps- competition, modern science, the rule of law and private property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic. Those six things are the secret sauce of Western civilization.” YearsFirstsCountryLastsLawSecretRightsModernCenturyCivilizationSixEthicsMedicineCompetitionPropertyWestWesternConsumersJapanApplicationKillersWork EthicAsianRule Of LawSaucePrivate PropertyProperty RightsWestern CivilizationModern ScienceAppsDownloadsModern MedicineAsian Countries Author:Niall Ferguson
“America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you got computer sex, you can download pornography, people are making dates with 10 year-olds. Hey, what's this? A Pepsi ad? They're ruining the integrity of the Internet!” PeopleYearsI CanAmericaSexRoomsCompanyInternetIntegrityComputerDecidedCustomersAdvertisingHeyUpsetOnlineAdsPornographyDownloadsPepsi Author:Jay Leno
“Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it.” PlayHelpingGamesDesignProgramPhonesVideoAppsDownloads Author:Barack Obama
“Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.” ShouldCrimeMusic IsDeeperSellingDownloadsDeeper Meaning Author:Dave Grohl
“Trust is everything. If I didn't have trust, there would be no downloads, no show, and no business.” IfsShowsWould BeDownloads Author:Stefan Molyneux
“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.” StillsStageHugeI RealizedReceivingDownloadsAlphasServerBetaOverloaded Author:Shawn Fanning
“I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.” PeopleWholePayRecordsShareBreaking DownDownloads Author:Richie Sambora
“We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingLittlesValuesSongOne ThingTrainValuableBunchLinksSiteOutside WorldDownloadsFiascoDevalue Author:Lupe Fiasco
“Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.” PeopleIfsWritingFirstsMatterReadingLevelsStepsAmountTake TimeGood WorkDownloadsIt Takes TimeWorth Reading Author:John Scalzi
“The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people’s radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go ’round and ’round.” PeopleMeanDoeStillsDifferentReasonSeemsPlayerFrontsRoundsRichnessRadarVinylDownloadsRawnessMp3Mp3 Players Author:Billy Gibbons
“People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.” PeopleWantAttentionToo MuchReaderMagazinesAwfulDigitalPrintRespectfulPublicationBaggageAppsDownloads Author:Marco Arment
“The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.” WantNeedsGivenLinesInfluenceInformationTvsWindowScreensAdvertisingUselessSlow DownClutterProvidersDownloads Author:Robert Cailliau
“Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.” PeopleIfsProblemStuffIndustryComplainingDistributionMusic IndustryAvailabilityDownloadsBandwidth Author:Dan Farmer
“Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.” IfsI CanFactsShowsMillionsQuartersDownloadsAdvertisers Author:Jay Mohr
“A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue a new season on DVD it kinda sells out, and we got nominated for an Emmy. To be picked up for six years is all gravy, man.” MenYearsWellsNumbersIssuesSixSeasonsSellsRidiculousDvdsIpodsDownloadsEmmysGravy Author:John C. McGinley