Tom Anderson Quotes

MySpace is for people online to socialize and we threw music into the mix as another option,

A band with no history can get 40,000 people looking at its video just by getting on the site and doing some work. It`s a strong incentive. The technology has changed so much in the past six or seven years. You can make a video cheaply. The quality may be lacking, but I think fans get excited when they discover a band that`s made its own record or video. They`re the first to see them underground.

I decided not to rebuild right away, ... It was a devastated area.

You can feel surfaces, you can feel textures, you can feel dynamics and momentum.

(Even the founders seem taken aback.) I don`t want to say it`s overwhelming, ... but I see these numbers coming out, I keep thinking, it must be a mistake. How can we pass Google? I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn`t know MySpace.

The water is going down and they`re coming out.

The water`s going down and they`re coming out. We`re seeing a lot more now. When the water goes down, you see what they`re tangled up on. I expect we`ll see a lot more.

I urge voters to state their position on the measure by exercising their right to vote,

The smart bands aren`t the ones that just go out and add a bunch of friends. They`re more personal about it, they go to people`s pages and see what they have listed and then they can tell if their music might appeal to them.

Touch is one of the most difficult senses to simulate on a computer. With our eyes it`s passive, with our ears it`s passive, with touch, it is two ways, both in and our of the computer, so you need something mechanical.