Bram Cohen Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
-
Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.
-
Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
-
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
-
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
-
You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
-
If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
-
Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
-
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
-
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
-
The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
-
I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
-
There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
-
The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
-
Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
-
I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
-
I often say to my assistants, 'Never trust anybody,' but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
-
When I'm not shooting, I go to school every day. When I am shooting, I have tutors on set helping me.
-
I think we've all done things we're not particularly fond of. Everybody goes through it and comes out the other end, and goes on with his life as if it didn't happen.
-
In players, vanity cripples art at every step.
-
The apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.
-
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.
