Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peerBitTorrent protocol, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent. He is also the co-founder of CodeCon and organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area P2P-hackers meeting, and was the co-author of Codeville...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
cat bags
With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.
giving
Give and ye shall receive.
games sound computer
Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.
song mean people
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 is getting so big, and they're so cheap, that pretty soon you'll have every song you own on one hard drive. The content distribution industry is going to evaporate.
tired people use
You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
writing quality idiot
Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.
next creator hard
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.
american-scientist good
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.
american-scientist mind
When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.
mature realizing mark
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless
want problem tricks
The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.
technology thinking drug-use
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. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.
ideas entrepreneur risk
Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.
interesting looks
When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.