Bram Cohen is the Chief Scientist and Founder of BitTorrent, Inc. and the creator of the BitTorrent file distribution protocol, which he grew to be a third of all Internet traffic before taking any funding. He is currently working on BitTorrent Live, a new protocol to enable limitless scaling of live video content on the Internet. Before founding BitTorrent, Bram worked at a series of start-ups through the dot-com boom doing web development and networking protocols in the early days of the Internet. Bram grew up in Manhattan, and currently lives in the Bay Area with his family.
Quotes of Bram Cohen :
1. The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it’s pointless.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Give and ye shall receive.
5. The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.
6. I’ve accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.
7. You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
8. With BitTorrent, the cat’s out of the bag.
9. My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
10. When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.
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