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I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.


Daniel Okrent

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DANIEL EK In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact tha...
DANIEL EK With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
DANIEL EK People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
DANIEL EK There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal...
DANIEL EK I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
DANIEL EK It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening t...
DANIEL EK At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your ...
DANIEL EK I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a w...
DANIEL EK With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I lea...
DANIEL EK I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
DANIEL EK Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
DANIEL EK At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
DANIEL EK He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
DANIEL DREW We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
DANIEL DREW Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolutio...
DANIEL DENNETT There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on su...
DANIEL DENNETT Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds a...
DANIEL DENNETT We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good ...
DANIEL DENNETT If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into t...
DANIEL DENNETT Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expressio...
DANIEL DENNETT Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction ...
DANIEL DENNETT In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage ...
DANIEL DENNETT Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preservin...
DANIEL DENNETT The mind is the effect, not the cause.
DANIEL DENNETT I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It ...
DANIEL DENNETT As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and ...
DANIEL DENNETT The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cl...
DANIEL DENNETT The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
DANIEL DENNETT In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may ...
DANIEL DENNETT An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
DANIEL DEFOE Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
DANIEL DEFOE All men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE He that is rich is wise.
DANIEL DEFOE Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
DANIEL DEFOE 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
DANIEL DEFOE I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a ci...
DANIEL DEFOE