If you could utilize the resources of the end users computers, you could do things much more efficiently. – Niklas Zennstrom
And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more. – Niklas Zennstrom
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. Its time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. – Niklas Zennstrom
With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense. – Niklas Zennstrom
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us. – Jim Urbanovich