Bram Cohen Quotes
"My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Favorite, Language, Support)
"You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Work, People)
"With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag."
- Bram Cohen
"When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Mind)
"The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: People, Want)
"The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Time)
"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 work directly."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Work, Content, Will)
"I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Pretty, Right, Writing)
"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 and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Technology, Drugs, Free speech, Information, Privacy)
"Give and ye shall receive."
- Bram Cohen
"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 only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Technology, Goals, Evil, Help, Laws, Succeed)
"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 function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Age, Father, Complexity, Programming, School)