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Give and ye shall receive.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
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Shall
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With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Bags
Cat
Bag
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When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Megalomaniac
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A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Ideas
Programming
Way
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When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Interesting
Looks
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I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Arrogant
I Can
Knows
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The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Problem
Tricks
Want
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I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Accomplished
My Own
Team
More Own My Own
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Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.
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Quality
Idiot
Writing
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The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Features
People
Release
Want
Way
Advanced
People Way Want
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You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
People
Tired
Use
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The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless
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Mark
Mature
Realizing
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The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Code
Mark
Mature
Pointless
Willingness
Programmer
Throw
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Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Computer
Games
Sound
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My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Clean
Library
Optional
Parameters
Python
Simple
Support
Syntax
Named
Object
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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 work directly.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Creator
Hard
Next
Predict
Content
Creators
Directly
Distribute
Guess
Increasingly
Main
Using
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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 / Computer Programmer
Accomplished
Arrogant
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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 a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Attitude
Bad Attitude
Code
Dresses
Reasonable
Strict
Thinking
Anywhere
Requires
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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'.
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Technology
Drug Use
Thinking
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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 / Computer Programmer
Class
Complexity
Father
Function
Including
Programming
School
Age Me Father
Anything Else
Basic
Classes
Computational
Everything Else
Age Father Me
Hardly
Rudimentary
Studying
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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.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Entrepreneur
Ideas
Risk
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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 / Computer Programmer
Technology
Basic Human Rights
Free Speech
Human Rights
Political
Privacy
Rights
Speech
Vices
Basic
Favor
Political Agenda
Purchase
Recreational
So-Called
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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 / Computer Programmer
Technology
Arena
Despite
Emphasis
Evil
Law
Rejected
Succeed
Views
Existing
Fail
Fundamentally
Help
Inevitably
Political Arena
View
Techniques
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One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Attitude
Care
School
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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.
Bram Cohen / Computer Programmer
Mean
People
Song
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