Bram Cohen Quotes

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• It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own…
• Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop.…
• The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives…
• The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless
• Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The…
• Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.
• I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information…
• The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.
• You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
• My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
• Give and ye shall receive.
• With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.
• My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a…
• In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow…
• I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.
• I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.
• A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.
• The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.
• Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.
• When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.

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