Bram Cohen Quotes

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

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 you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

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.

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.

I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

Give and ye shall receive.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.