Bram Cohen Quotes
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.
Thompson, Clive. "The BitTorrent Effect." Wired, Condé Nast, Jan. 2005.
In early WWII, he opposed the Japanese military practice of killing conquered civilian people to instill fear and make them accept occupation. (In this case in occupied Indonesia). He was arrested by the military and sentenced to death, but he never was executed. Though not generally known, there were a number of Japanese who opposed the Japanese military policies and practices. He was one.
Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent 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.